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He is an oboist, English horn player and teacher, born
in Cape Cod, who(William Alwyn)
Studied at
the Longy School of Music, the New England Conservatory of Music,
Tanglewood and held a Friends of Curtis Fellowship at the Curtis Institute
of Music, graduating in 2001.
He was the principal oboist of the Curtis Symphony
Orchestra from 1997 to 2001 and took on the same position with the Concerto
Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia in 2002.
Other orchestras he has performed with include
the Academy Winds as part of the Pennsylvania Academy of Music, Baltimore
Symphony, the Pennsylania Ballet, the Philadelphia Orchestra and Schola
Nova and performed as a soloist at Switzerland’s Verbier Festival. He has also performed under the leadership
of acclainmed conductors such as Kurt Mazur, Sir Neville Marriner, Andre
Previn, Simon Rattle, Mstislav Rostropovich, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Robert
Spano and Hans Vonk among many others.
In 2005 he became a member of the adjunct faculty at
the Pennsylvania Academy of Music and in 2006 he increased his faculty
membership by joining Franklin & Marshall College.
In 2007 he recorded as a soloist on the Naxos release Blades
of Grass by Philadelphia’s Romeo Cascarino.
In more recent years he has performed as a member of
Dolce Suono and appeared in their 2009-2010 chamber concert series. He has also been featured as a
soloist performing the English horn on Aaron Copland’s “Quiet City” with
The Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra in May 2010.
Sources:
- http://www.fandm.edu/x12643
- http://www.mimistillman.org/dolcesuono/players-geoff.html
- http://www.naxos.com/person/Geoffrey_Deemer/14658.htm
- http://leewayfoundation.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/bpco/
- http://www.chamberorchestra.org/main.cfm?page=musicians
- http://www.pamusacad.org/about-press-2007Mar28.php
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