Good Oboe Schools?

btarby
Thu, 07 Mar 2013 03:36:03 +0000

Hi OboeSoprano,
I graduated from IU with a BM in Oboe and absolutely loved it! The one thing is, Indiana, and also Michigan, are practically conservatories in university form. If you mention those schools, then you saying that Juilliard and Eastman are unattainable is not necessarily true. After my Bachelor’s I went to Mannes for my Masters to study with Elaine Douvas and several of my classmates went on to other big oboe schools like NEC and CIM. If you want to study with any of the people who teach at the schools you mentioned, I would recommend going to visit and taking a lesson so you can get a feel for how they teach and if your personalities will mesh. Especially for the very competitive schools, in many cases, knowing the teacher is absolutely important. I’m sure that if Linda Strommen at IU has the time, she would be happy to give you a lesson. Also, feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions about the process that I went through, the hard work pursuing a music career, as well as more names of some of the top oboe teachers.