The DSO has a history of excellent wind principals, and Shepherd conceived this DSO commission specifically for the excellent ...

Each year, Smith offers a Concerto Competition for its music students. This year’s winners include Ava Jensen ’26, oboe, performing Mozart’s Oboe Concerto in C Major, K. 314 (1777); Tomoko Hida ’26, ...

The piece took the number one slot in the annual Classic FM Hall Of Fame ballot, with 90,000 votes cast by the public.

Sean Shepherd’s Quadruple Concerto—featuring flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon—proved at once clever and substantial in its ...

Principal oboist Chris Robins will be the soloist in Alessandro Marcello’s “Oboe Concerto in D Minor.” The program will also highlight George Philipp Telemann’s “Don Quixote Suite ...

The New England-based group, Brandenburg and Beyond, will perform Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 featuring the PSO’s Adam Gallant on piccolo trumpet and Sarah Krebs on oboe. Directly ...

The American composer Sean Shepherd possesses several valuable traits not often found commingling—specifically talent, ambition and modesty. Widely admired, the congenial Mr. Shepherd, a 45-year ...

The program kicks off with music from The Lord of the Rings films by Howard Shore, followed by a movement from Ralph Vaughan ...

Multi-soloist concertos were common throughout the Baroque and Classical ... of certain instruments as representative of various birds (flute as nightingale, oboe as quail, and so on). I prefer a ...