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Amy Goeser Kolb
(541) 346-5882
agkolb@uoregon.edu

Amy Goeser Kolb is an assistant professor at the University of Oregon, where she teaches oboe and music appreciation. She holds degrees in performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.M.), Staatliche Hochschule for Music in Cologne, Germany (M.M.) and SUNY Stony Brook in New York (D.M.A.). Her teachers have included Basil Reeve, Marc Fink, Christian Schneider, and Steve Taylor.

She spent nearly ten years in Europe freelancing, and as an advocate for new music she has commissioned, premiered, and recorded more than 200 new works, collaborating with composers from Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Central America, South America, and the United States. She has received commissioning grants from The American Composers Forum, the Jerome Foundation, Meet The Composer, the German Government, and private donors. She is a founding member of the German-based ensemble Trio Akkobasso (oboe, accordion, double bass), which has commissioned and premiered works for this instrumentation exclusively. She is also a founding member of Trio 335 (oboe, accordion, bassoon). As a member of the International Double Reed Society, she has performed with Trio 335 in Argentina and Canada, and with English organist Martin Neary in Birmingham, England.

In Germany, she was a member of the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Southwest Philharmonic, Ensemble Cologne, and Ensemble Avance. In 1993 she traveled extensively throughout Japan and Canada with The Takagaki Koto Ensemble of Japan. She has performed with the Heidelberg Festival Ensemble, Stony Brook Contemporary Players, and the Bach Aria Festival in New York. As a soloist, she has performed with the Hutchinson and Wichita Symphony Orchestras in Kansas; in 2008 she gave the world premiere of Harold Owen’s Concerto for Oboe and Strings with University of Oregon Symphony and subsequently with Octava Chamber Orchestra in Seattle. She performs with the Oregon Symphony, Portland Opera, Oregon Mozart Players, and Eugene Symphony as a regular substitute. Summer festivals include the Oregon Bach Festival (Helmuth Rilling, conductor), the Cabrillo Festival for Contemporary Music (Marin Alsop), Cascade Music Festival (Murray Sidling), Astoria Music Festival (Keith Clark), and Chamber Music at The Barn.

She has given master classes at schools across the country, including the University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Yale University, The Manhattan School of Music, the Juilliard School, and Cal Arts.

New endeavors include Chamber Music Amici, a resident ensemble of the Wildish Theater in the Eugene-Springfield area. She has established a duo with celebrated English organist Martin Neary, dedicated to the discovery and promotion of new and rare works for oboe and organ.

She will serve as editor of the English translation of Mein Vater Helmuth Rilling by Sara Rilling, for release in 2010.

Goeser Kolb has recorded for Deutsche Gramophone, WDR (West German Radio), Koch/Schwann/Aulos, Antes, Equilibrium, and Hänssler Labels.