Program Overview
Renew, improve and evaluate skills while working with a faculty of leading oboists. This is a refresher course for working musicians, teachers of the oboe or aspiring professionals.
The Oboe Master Conference will cover:
- technical principles
- practical application of solo and orchestral literature for performance and auditions
- use of the Barret and Ferling Methods as a basis for study and teaching insights
- keys to teaching success
Two three-hour master class sessions will be held each day. Practice time will be built into the schedule and literature will be assigned before participants’ arrival to make efficient use of conference time. Participants will each receive a half-hour lesson with both Ms. Douvas and Ms. Strommen; auditors will receive one half-hour lesson with Mr. Stolper.
Tuition fee includes admission to a recital performance by our outstanding faculty, plus campus lodging and cafeteria meals.
Interlochen Center for the Arts is an authorized provider of continuing education units (SB-CEUs) as approved by the Michigan State Board of Education. Michigan educators participating in the Oboe Master Conference may be able to receive SB-CEUs. If you are interested in earning SB-CEUs for attending the Oboe Master Conference, please see the program registration form for further details.
Oboe Master Conference sessions will be held throughout the campus of Interlochen Center for the Arts and will feature two faculty performances in the Dendrinos Chapel. The Dendrinos Chapel was built in 1981 and seats 200. More intimate performances, such as student, faculty and guest artists recitals take place here. It is also home to Interlochen's 50-rank Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ, which was restored and rededicated in 2006.
