In the orchestra, we had a really great oboe player who was a few years older than me and I thought she was amazing. After hearing her play, I fell in love with the sound, and started to listen to ...

Orchestras normally tune to a concert A played by the oboe. How to play Unlike the clarinet or saxophone, the oboe uses a double reed. The sound is made by blowing a stream of air into the mouthpiece ...

The oboe player is sometimes asked to play the cor anglais (literally: "English Horn"). This instruments is very similar to the oboe but lower and mellower.

If you’ve ever watched the film Amadeus, you’ve heard Celia Nicklin playing the oboe with the Academy of St Martin in the ...

A musician from Lancashire is celebrating 70 years playing with orchestras in two towns. Oboe player Patricia Chippendale, who started playing the instrument aged nine and plays for orchestras in ...

Music from the 18th century. This programme is dedicated to quartets for oboe and string trios from the decades around 1800.

It was a gripping, uniquely beautiful performance. (And, whomever you are sir, not a bad introduction to the oboe!) Noseda opened Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 6” with glacial grace ...

Choa, a former chair of the school of music at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts coaxed some of the finest playing seen in recent times from the CCOHK’s players. This was apparent right ...