Community Concerts at Second: Baltimore Symphony Musicians & Friends
Free
- Jacob Shack, viola
- Lura Johnson, piano
- Holly Jenkins, violin
- Erica Gailing, viola
- Jaime An, cello
- Nina DeCesare, double bass
- Marcia McHugh, flute
- Katherine Needleman, oboe
- Vitor Trindade, clarinet
- Harrison Miller, bassoon
- Gabrielle Finck, French horn
About Lura Johnson, piano
About Holly Jenkins, violin
About Erica Gailing, viola
About Jaime An, cello
About Nina DeCesare, double bass
About Marcia McHugh, flute
About Katherine Needleman, oboe
Katherine Needleman joined the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as principal oboist in 2003, the same year she won first prize at the International Double Reed Society's Gillet-Fox Competition.
A lifelong improviser, she has recorded the Marmalade Balloon, an album of improvised, ambient chamber music with distinguished classical music colleagues as well as synthesizers from the 1960s and 1970s. She started writing music down on paper during the COVID-19 pandemic and won the International Double Reed Society's Inaugural Commissioning Competition with her sonata for oboe and piano. They commissioned her to write a work for English horn and piano which received its premiere in July, 2021, with Alison Teale of the BBC Symphony.
A Baltimore native, Ms. Needleman attended high school at the Baltimore School for the Arts but left early to attend the Curtis Institute of Music. She served on the faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University for fifteen years and is currently on faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music.
http://katherineneedleman.com/