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Please see below a selection of professionals around the world who play on our instruments.
Sherie Aguirre
Virginia Symphony and Virginia Opera
Read moreSherie Lake Aguirre has been the Principal oboist of the Virginia Symphony and the Virginia Opera since 1987. She graduated from Indiana University with a Bachelor’s degree in Performance and continued her graduate studies with Ray Still at Northwestern University.
Sherie has held principal positions with the Singapore Symphony, La Sinfonica de Maracaibo, La Sinfonica de Tenerife, and La Sinfonica de Madrid. She appears regularly as soloist with the VSO and performs frequently in the Chamber Music series of the Virginia Arts Festival. From 1990 to 1997 she spent her summers in Boulder, Colorado performing with the Colorado Music Festival. For the past 15 summers, Sherie has performed and recorded several CD’s with the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival in Florida.
Sherie also maintains a private teaching studio full of young, local, talented oboe students in addition to fulfilling adjunct faculty positions at William and Mary College and Old Dominion University.
Ruby Ashley
Professor at Royal Irish Academy of Music
Read moreRuby Ashley is a lecturer in oboe studies at the RIAM. She has extensive experience in training students who become national prize-winners and members of professional orchestras in Ireland and Europe.
Ruby studied with Janet Craxton and subsequently at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. She continued her studies at the Nordwestdeutsche Musik-akademie and with Ray Still in Chicago, USA. In 1982 Ruby attended Goldsmiths College, London University to undertake orchestral studies at the National Centre for Orchestral Studies gaining the Diploma in Orchestral Studies in 1983. Ruby completed her Masters Degree in music in 2008; her specialist study was oboe reeds.
Ruby was a founding member of one of Ireland’s most respected and active ch Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article content Calgary Opera’s new artistic director says he hopes to build on the company’s commitment to creating a new and younger audience for future seasons. Article content On Tuesday, the company announced that Italian-born conductor and classical musician Jonathan Brandani will take over as artistic director. Bramwell Tovey, who joined the opera in January 2019 as artistic director, stepped down from the role in October 2020 due to health concerns. Article content Article content Advertisement 1 Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Brandani is a rising star in the world of classical music and no stranger to Calgary Opera. He conducted the company’s presentation of Giacomo Puccini’s La Boheme in 2019, which broke box-office records for the organization., Article content By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Thanks for signing up! A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Noon News Roundup will soon be in your inbox. We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try again Article content “I really love the commitment they have to the community and to education, especially in younger generations,” said Brandani in an interview with Postmedia from his home in Italy. “They want to engage in a conversation about how we can make opera more accessible and more meaningful to more people. That’s what is really (close) to my heart. I really want to help the company grow and reach new audiences and show the potential of this art form.” Article content Brandani did not get into specifics ab We will be updating this list weekly. Please note that all times are given in U.S. Eastern Time (ET). To calculate in other time zones or counties, British Summer Time (BST) is currently five hours ahead of ET and Central European Time (CET) is currently six hours ahead. U.S. Central Daylight Time (CDT) is one hour behind ET. Mountain Time (MT) is two hours behind ET, while Pacific Time (PT) is three hours behind. Contact editor@musicalamerica.com. Classical music coverage on Musical America is supported in part by a grant from the Rubin Institute for Music Criticism, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation. Musical America makes all editorial decisions. 6 am, 1 pm, 3 pm ET: Festival d’Aix-en-Provence Digital Stage presents Creating in the Mediterranean. Mediterranean Youth Orchestra leading figures—Fabrizio Cassol, artistic director of the intercultural Medinea Session and Duncan Ward, music director of MYO’s symphonic sessions—discuss issues that arise for musical creation initiatives in the Mediterranean. At 1pm, the Intercultural Medinea Session will bring together 10 young improvisers, either present at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis or, for those unable to travel, in their home countries. Finally, Dmitri Tcherniakov’s production of Carmen (2017 Festival) is introduced by Stéphanie d’Oustrac. View here. 6 am ET: Opéra de Paris presents Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron. “Oh word, word that I lack!” That last phrase, uttered by Moses, sums up the prophet’s tragic weakness but also expresses the composer’s inability to overcome his own contradictions. Converting back to Judaism shortly before seeking refuge in the United States, the inventor of dodecaphonism was plagued by an almost existential inability during his last two decades: that of comp .Calgary Opera announces Italian conductor and musician as new artistic director
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