My musical career came to an abrupt end when, at the age of 15, I left the school oboe on a bus. The following four days, before the call came through from the London Transport lost property office, ...

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 ...

Eugene Izotov has been the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s principal oboist since 2005. In the midst of While on the orchestra’s recent European tour, he spoke about his instrument as well as the perils ...

Shea Scruggs remembers the day he first realized the full potential of the oboe. Freshly arrived at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute, he began his first lesson with Richard Woodhams, principal oboe of ...

<p>Dr. Nathaniel Whitney screws a “cage” onto Merley’s skull before his surgery in 2012. Surgeons were able to identify the exact location where Merley’s brain was over-firing and causing his hands ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- My first six years as an oboist were spent listening to uncountable hours of CDs — Tower Records was a treasure trove for me. I had an experience at age 17 that changed my insular ...

UK oboe professor Nancy Clauter, center, with students Phillip Smith, left, Amanda Slone, Heather Baxter and Raechel White. Clauter is leaving her post to concentrate on stem cell treatments for her ...

Alex Klein was at the top of his game in 2001 when the mysterious malady struck. As the principal oboist of the stellar Chicago Symphony and the winner of five Grammy Awards, he was considered one of ...

A musician said she's desperate to find her oboe after the prized instrument was stolen from her apartment building's lobby in Boston's Allston neighborhood. The thief entered the apartment building ...

Nicholas Daniel is not what you call a star of the oboe. He gives the impression that he wouldn't ever want to be. And the oboe is one of those instruments that doesn't really breed star performers in ...