Nancy Ambrose King

Associate Professor of Oboe
nak@umich.edu
734-764-2522

Professor King is the first-prize winner of the Third New York International Competition for Solo Oboists, held in 1995. She has appeared as soloist throughout the United States and abroad, including appearances with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in Russia, the Janacek Philharmonic in the Czech Republic, the Festival Internacionale de Musica Orchestra in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the New York String Orchestra. She has recorded three CDs for Boston Records, the solo recordings Nancy Ambrose King: The Winning Program and Évocations; and a recording of flute and oboe music with flutist Amy Porter entitled Porter-Ambrose King.  Her two most recent CD releases, on the British label Cala Records, feature oboe concertos of Mozart, Goossens, Lebrun, Martinu, and Vaughan-Williams. Ms. King has also recorded on the Athena, Arabesque, Naxos, and CBS Masterworks labels. 

She was a finalist in the Fernand Gillet Oboe Competition held in Graz, Austria, recipient of U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance’s prestigious Stanley Medal, and has been heard as soloist on WQXR radio in New York City and NPR’s "Performance Today." She has taught and performed in the Sarasota Music Festival, Bowdoin Music Festival, Strings in the Mountains of Steamboat Springs, and Hot Springs Music Festival. 

Professor King is currently President of the International Double Reed Society and has served on the faculties of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Indiana University, Ithaca College, University of Northern Colorado, and the Duquesne University School of Music, Theatre & Dance. She has performed as principal oboist in Sinfonia da Camera, Michigan Opera Theater Orchestra, Flint Symphony Orchestra, Heidelberg Opera Orchestra, Colorado Symphony, Greeley Philharmonic, Indiana University Festival Orchestra, and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, as well as performing in the Los Angeles, Boston, Detroit, and Rochester Philharmonic Symphony Orchestras.

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