Linda strommen biography

Biography

Linda Strommen is professor of music in oboe at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She has also been a guest faculty member at The Juilliard School for the past 20 years and is a faculty member with Interlochen Arts Camp and the New York String Orchestra Seminar.

A former member of the Metropolitan Opera and Santa Fe Opera orchestras, she has held principal and assistant principal positions with the Milwaukee, Honolulu, New Haven, Wichita, and Baton Rouge symphonies and acting principal oboe positions with the Rochester Philharmonic and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. In addition to being a former member of the Timm and Lieurance woodwind quintets, she has been a regular participant in summer festivals such as the Marlboro, Bellingham, Bard, and Masterworks festivals.

Former Strommen students have held or currently hold positions with The Metropolitan Opera Company, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Jerusalem Philharmonic, Mexico City Philharmonic, Grand Rapids Symphony, Spokane Symphony, Wichita Symphony, Wichita

Former Students have held or currently hold positions with:

 

Recent Appointments:

University of Wisconsin - Madison (Faculty)

San Francisco Orchestra

Navy Field Band

University of Oklahoma (Faculty)

 

A Selection of Other Positions:

The Metropolitan Opera Company

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Saint Louis Symphony

National Symphony

San Antonio Symphony

Rochester Philpharmonic

Jerusalem Philharmonic

Mexico City Philharmonic

Honolulu Symphony

Spokane Symphony

Grand Rapids Symphony

Wichita Symphony

Wichita State University (Faculty)

United States Navy Band

United States Coast Guard Band

The Julliard School Pre-College Faculty

Stephen Austin State University (Faculty)

Auburn University (Faculty)

New Haven Symphony

Nashville Symphony

Midland-Odesa Symphony

Canton Symphony

Chattanooga Symphony

Atlanta Opera

Birmingham Symphony

Portland Opera

United States Army Field Band


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Linda Strommen

American oboist

Linda Strommen is an American oboist. She is Professor of Oboe at Indiana University and has been a regular visiting Oboe Instructor at the Juilliard School of Music for more than ten years. A former member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the Santa Fe Opera, she has held principal and assistant principal position with Milwaukee, Honolulu, New Heaven, Wichita, and Baton Rouge Symphonies and acting principal oboe positions with the Rochester Philharmonic and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. In addition to being a former member of the Timm and Lieurance Woodwind Quintets, she has been a regular participant in summer festivals such as the Marlboro, Bellingham, Bard and Masterworks Festivals. Ms. Strommen commissioned and premiered the oboe concerto for oboe and string orchestra “Down a River of Time” by Eric Ewazen. Her recording of this work with the International Sejong Soloists, “Sejong Plays Ewazen,” has been released by Albany records.

One of the most sought-after oboe pedagogues of our day, Ms. Strommen held positions as Professor of

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