Does anyone know who will be taking over for Colin Gatwood as 2nd oboe? The last time they did an opening was in 1991, when Colin Gatwood won the position and joined that year. He retired in December 2025 along with his wife Aralee Dorough (Principal Flute), and his position has been open since December.
Finals are today 9/29
Audition was today (9/25)
Lance Suzuki won Principal Flute
Haley Hoffman won English Horn
Pablo Moreno is the winner of this audition. Currently, Pablo is the acting Oboe 2 of the Houston Symphony. Here's his photo: https://houstonsymphony.org/musicians/pablo-moreno/
Samantha Zelnik is the winner. She is currently a member of the Savannah Philharmonic. Congratulaions Sam!
Liam Boisset is the winner of this audition. He's currently principal in the American Ballet Theater. Recently, he won second in the OSM-Montreal Symphony too and has decided to go the Met. Congratulations Liam!
Tai Yokomori is the new winner of this audition. He just completed his master's with Nathan Hughes at Juilliard. His other teachers were Sarah Jeffrey, Ted Baskin and Caitlin Kramer Braam. A BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO TAI!!! Tai was the runner up at this OSM audition, but he got enough votes to qualify for the job when Liam Boisset declined it and went to the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. This was Tai's third audition win in the last three months. He won two Eh+oboe jobs in Edmonton and Charlotte. Congratulations Tai!!!
bio and pic HERE: https://nac-cna.ca/en/bio/tai-yokomori
Audition was June 8th in Northern Denmark.
Will Stevens!!
Audition concluded June 5
Audition was May 4
Audition was today (international round).
Audition was May 15th
Finals are on 5/12
Finals are today...
Think the audition ended by 4/30, not sure.
More about Liam HERE: https://www.hautboisset.com/about
!!!AUDITION RESULT!!! Second Oboe Orchestre symphonique de Montréal - OSM Liam Boisset is the winner of this audition. He's currently principal in the American Ballet Theater in NYC, as well as an associate musician with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
His primary teachers were William Bennett, Elaine Douvas and Eugene Izotov. A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO LIAM!!
Congratulations to Ian Wisekal!! He is the new principal of the Colorado Springs Philharmonic! Ian teachers at the University of Denver. Meet him HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwaR1k03LGU
Anyone know what happened?
Heard this ended yesterday, and Kenny Bader from the Charleston Symphony won it, congrats!
Audition was today (Apr 7)
Audition was last weekend
Audition finishes today
Audition is from 3/22-3/24
I believe finals were at the beginning of the month.
Audition was March 16 - anyone got the scoop?
Gwen Goble is the winner of this audition. Undergrad at Oberlin with Robert Walters. Graduate degree in Boston with Gabriele/Ferrillo. A huge congratulations to her!
Audition was 1/26
Nathan Swain won this audition. Congrats to them!!
Jacks Pollard is the winner of this audition. He studied with the late Bob Burks (former principal in Chattanooga,) with Zach Boeding (Assoc. Principal ATL) and Liz Tiscione (Principal in ATL) and with Elaine Douvas (formerly Met Opera) at Juilliard. A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO JACKS. Here's a photo of him. https://app.stagetime.com/artists/web_mode/jacks-pollard
Audition was today (Jan 9)
Audition was on 11/17
Finals were yesterday. Any news?
Audition was Nov 13
Should have ended today. Any updates?
Audition was early October
Audition was Sept 18
Audition was September 15 and 16
Audition was Tues Sept 16
audition was sept 9 & 10
Auditions were this past weekend.
National round was today
Great Falls auditioned for principal flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon this past week - any word?
Finals are today.
Auditions were May 31
Audition ended today
Audition was May 26
Joshua Bullock won this audition
Audition was May 9
Noah Breneman won this audition.
Did anyone succeed in the fall or April at the Air Force auditions?
Audition was yesterday (May 6)
Finals were supposed to be sometime in April, anyone know if it happened yet?
Audition concluded yesterday. Results?
Audition ended today.
(There was a post asking about this earlier, not sure what happened to it.)
Michael Keogh won. Congrats to him!
Audition was yesterday (Apr 4)
Auditions were yesterday
Finals were today. Anyone have updates?
The audition was Jan 22.
Harrison Linsey won this today, Mitchell Kuhns runner-up
Any news from the Marine’s English Horn audition today?
Finals are today.
Audition was today
Audition was Oct 5
Peter Davies won this audition after a superfinal round. The runner-up was Hoon Chang, and the third superfinalist was Kelley Osterberg. Congratulations to all!
Audition was this past Thursday, September 12.
Per Eugene Izotov's page, Ben Brogadir has won this position.
Kenny Bader won this position.
Finals were today.
this audition was Monday
Finals were today, who won?
Audition was May 2
This audition is today.
Congrats to John Upton (current oboe/EH associate) who won this audition.
Position is one-year substitute
No hire.....
Alex DiThomas was the winner. Leo De La Cruz and Anqi Zhou were the other finalists. Congrats to Alex!
Jonathan Snyder won
auditions were last week
I believe there was an audition in Sep, was there a winner named?
Congratulations to Timothy Swanson for winning today's audition for Principal Oboe of the Charlotte Symphony! Best of luck to him in his new position!
These auditions were held the past few days. Any news?
I'm told Sophia Maeda won this position earlier this week
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