Linda Strommen is Professor of Oboe at Indiana University and a regular visiting oboe instructor at the Juilliard School of Music. A former member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the Santa Fe Opera, she has held principal and assistant principal positions with the Milwaukee, Honolulu, New Haven, Wichita and Baton Rouge Symphonies and acting principle 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 Down a River of Time by Eric Ewazen. Her recording of this work with the International Sejong Soloists, Sejong Plays Ewazen, was released by Albany records.
A devoted teacher and clinician, Ms. Strommen is the former Professor of Oboe at Louisiana State University and Wichita State University, having held these positions for six and nine years, respectively. Her past positions also include Oboe Instructor at Mannes College of Music, the Juilliard Pre-College, State University of New York at Purchase, University of Hawaii and adjunct faculty at Yale University. For many years Ms. Strommen has been teaching on the summer faculties of Le Domaine Forget Music and Dance Academy, John Mack Oboe Camp and Interlochen Arts Camp.
Ms. Strommen attended the Cleveland Institute of Music where she was a pupil of John Mack. She took additional studies with Ray Still, Richard Woodhams, Robert Bloom, Stephen Colburn and has recorded on Telarc, Deutsche Gramophone, Sony, Summit and Albany labels. Ms. Strommen currently serves on the advisory committees of the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Alexander Schneider Concert/New York String Orchestra Seminar.
