Laila Storch
Laila Storch is an American Oboist and the first woman oboist to graduate from the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia where she studied with Marcel Tabuteau.[1]
Biography
She was a principal oboist for the Houston Symphony Orchestra,[2] Carmel Bach Festival, the Bethlehem Bach Festival, Marlboro Music Festival and the Casals Festivals. Additionally, she played with the National Symphony, the Kansas City Philharmonic, and the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra. She has also been a professor of oboe at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico, professor emeritus at the University of Washington and a guest Professor at Indiana University as well as the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing. She is one of the longest serving members of the Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet.
Storch is also the biographer of longtime Curtis faculty member and world renowned oboist Marcel Tabuteau.
Bibliography
- Storch, Laila (2008). Marcel Tabuteau: How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe If You Can't Peel a Mushroom?. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34949-1.
References
- ^ "Curtis Alumni Award Presented to Robert Fitzpatrick (Clarinet '68) and Laila Storch (Oboe '45)". Curtis Institute of Music. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
- ^ Burgess, Geoffrey (2004). The Oboe. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press. p. 207.