Composer Jeff Scott. Courtesy of Jeff Scott's Instagram. The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Live at the Sheldon series was the best thing to come out of the renovation of Powell Hall, which left the ...

It’s not so common for a player to rise so smoothly up the ranks of American orchestras. Yet oboist Scott Bell, a former Hartford Symphony musician who now plays with the coveted Pittsburgh Symphony, ...

It's a good thing for Hassan Anderson that his mother, Carolyn, wasn't afraid to take risks. When he was a junior at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, she sold her car to help him buy an oboe so ...

The Mozart Oboe Concerto begins normally enough. The orchestra introduces two themes, one jaunty, one questioning. But then something odd happens. “The oboist enters with this crazy scale up to a high ...

Tell us about your journey as a professional musician and how you joined the Philharmonic. I come from an artistic family. My Dad was a pop/rock musician, my Grandfather was an artist and my great ...

Review: Nicholas Daniel with the Britten Oboe Quartet at the King’s Hall, December 12 The combination of the oboe with a string trio was a creation of Mozart’s genius and so it was fitting that the ...

The oboe is a double-reed instrument and member of the woodwind family. Oboes are usually made of wood, but there are also oboes made of synthetic materials. The oboe is commonly used in concert bands ...