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Amy Goeser Kolb
(541) 346-5882
agkolb@uoregon.edu
Amy Goeser Kolb is an assistant professor at the University of
Oregon, where she teaches oboe and theory. She holds degrees in
performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.M.), Staatliche
Hochschule for Music in Cologne, Germany (M.M.) and SUNY Stony
Brook in New York (D.M.A.). Her teachers have included Basil Reeve,
Marc Fink, Christian Schneider, and Steve Taylor.
As an advocate for new music, she has commissioned, premiered,
and recorded more than 100 new works, collaborating with composers
from Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Central America, South America,
and the United States. She has been the recipient of commissioning
grants from The American Composers Forum, the Jerome Foundation,
Meet The Composer, the German Government, and private donors. She
spent nearly ten years in Germany premiering new works written
for her and the ensemble Trio Akkobasso (oboe, accordion, double
bass). She is also a founding member of Trio 335 (oboe, accordion,
bassoon). As a member of the International Double Reed Society,
she has performed with Trio 335 at conferences in Argentina and
Canada.
Goeser Kolb has recorded for Deutsche Gramophone, WDR (West
German Radio), Koch/Schwann/Aulos, Antes, and Equilibrium Labels.
While in Europe, she freelanced with many orchestras and was a
member of the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Southwest Philharmonic,
Ensemble Cologne, and Ensemble Avance in Germany. In 1993 she
traveled extensively throughout Japan and Canada with The Takagaki
Koto Ensemble of Japan. She has performed with the Heidelberg
Festival Ensemble, Stony Brook Contemporary Players, and the Bach
Aria Festival in New York. As a soloist, she has performed with
the Hutchinson and Wichita Symphony Orchestras in Kansas, and
in the University of Oregon Symphony premiere of Harold Owen’s
Concerto for Oboe and Strings. She also has performed
with the Oregon Symphony, Portland Opera, Oregon Mozart Players,
and Eugene Symphony. Summer festivals include the Oregon Bach
Festival, the Cabrillo Festival for Contemporary Music, and Cascade
Music Festival. Goeser Kolb has been a guest lecturer for the
Bach Festival’s
Elderhostel program, and has given recent master classes at the
University of Minnesota, Yale University, The Manhattan School
of Music and the Juilliard School.
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