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List of oboists

An oboist (formerly hautboist) is a musician who plays the oboe or any oboe family instrument, including the oboe d'amore, cor anglais or English horn, bass oboe and piccolo oboe or oboe musette.

The following is a list of notable past and present professional oboists, with indications when they were/are known better for other professions in their own time. Oboists with an asterisk (*) have biographies in the online version of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Historical oboists

Baroque period 1600–1760

Classical period 1730–1820

Romantic period 1815–1910

20th-century oboists

A–L

M–Z

20th-century players of the English horn

Contemporary classical oboists

A–B

C–E

F–H

I–L

M–Q

R–S

T–Z

Contemporary oboists best known for playing English horn (cor anglais) or oboe d'amore

Contemporary oboists best known for playing period instruments

Oboists performing primarily outside classical genres

As primary instrument

As secondary instrument

  • Ahmad Alaadeen (1934–2010), American – jazz (saxophonist)
  • Marshall Allen (born 1924), American – jazz (saxophonist)
  • Derek Bell (1935–2002), Irish – folk (harpist)
  • Amanda Brown (born 1965), Australian – indie rock (violinist, guitarist)
  • Garvin Bushell (1902–1991), American – jazz (all reeds)
  • Bob Cooper (1925–1993), American – jazz (saxophone)
  • Julie Fowlis (born 1979), Scottish – Celtic (vocalist)
  • Vinny Golia (born 1946), American – jazz (all woodwinds)
  • Joseph Jarman (1937–2019), American – jazz (clarinetist, saxophonist)
  • Mick Karn (1958–2011), British – rock (multi-instrumentalist)
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1936–1977), American – jazz (multi-instrumentalist)
  • Yusef Lateef (1920–2013), American – jazz (saxophonist, flutist)
  • Giuseppi Logan (1935–2020), American – jazz (multi-instrumentalist)
  • Andy Mackay (born 1946), English – art rock (saxophonist)
  • Charlie Mariano (1923–2009), American – jazz (saxophonist)
  • Makanda Ken McIntyre (1931–2001), American – jazz (saxophonist)
  • Roscoe Mitchell (born 1940), American – jazz (saxophonist)
  • Dewey Redman (1931–2006), American – jazz (saxophonist, suona)
  • Don Redman (1900–1964), American – jazz (clarinetist, saxophonist)
  • Sufjan Stevens (born 1975), American – indie rock (multi-instrumentalist)
  • Kjartan Sveinsson (born 1978), Icelandic – post-rock (keyboardist)

Shehnai players

References

Further reading

  • David Lasocki "The French Hautboy in England, 1673–1730" Early Music 16(3) 339–357
  • Alfredo Bernardini "The Oboe in the Venetian Republic, 1692–1797" Early Music 16(3) 372–387
  • Janet K. Page "The Hautboy in London's Musical Life, 1730–1770" Early Music 16(3) 358–371
  • Bruce Haynes "Mozart and the Oboe" Early Music 20(1) 43–63
  • Ryoichi Narusawa (ed. Marc Fink) "A History of Oboe Playing in Japan" (The Double Reed, Vol.27 No.4, International Double Reed Society) 2004

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