Peggy Pearson

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Oboist, Peggy Pearson, won the Pope Foundation Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Music. LLoyd Shwartz, winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, called her "my favorite oboist." Ms. Pearson gave her New York debut with Dawn Upshaw in 1995, a program featuring the premier of John Harbison's Chorale Cantata, which was written for them. She has performed solo, chamber and orchestral music throughout the United States and abroad.

Ms Pearson is solo oboist with the Emmanuel Chamber Orchestra, an organization that has performed the complete cycle of sacred cantatas by J.S.Bach. According to Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe, "Peggy Pearson has probably played more Bach than any other oboist of her generation; this is music she plays in a state of eloquent grace".

Ms. Pearson is Director of Winsor Music Inc.; she is also Artistic Director of and oboist with the Winsor Music Chamber Series in Lexington, Massachusetts, and the Greenleaf Chamber Players, currently in residence at Purchase College, NY.

Ms. Pearson has toured internationally and recorded extensively with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and has appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra as principal oboist, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Metamorphosen, and Music from Marlboro.

Peggy Pearson has studied with Mela Tenenbaum, Heinz Holliger, and Ralph Gomberg among others. She has been on the faculties of the New England Conservatory (Bach Institute), Purchase College, the Conservatory of Music (University of Cincinnati), the Boston Conservatory, Welleseley College and the Longy School of Music.

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