Kathryn Montoya baroque oboe & oboe d’amore

Kathryn Montoya appears with a variety of orchestral and chamber music ensembles, including the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Tafelmusik, and Apollo’s Fire. She received her degrees at Oberlin Conservatory and Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington. While at IU she received the prestigious Performer’s Certificate and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Germany.

Montoya teaches historical oboes at Oberlin Conservatory and has been on the faculty of Longy’s International Baroque Institute, the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin, SFEMS workshops, and has given masterclasses in the US and China.

She enjoys a varied musical career performing for the Grammy award-winning recording of Charpentier’s La Couronne de Fleurs with BEMF, productions of Twelfth Night and Richard III on Broadway with Shakespeare’s Globe of London and has toured and recorded extensively with the Traditional music group, Ensemble Galilei.

Montoya can regularly be found in Hereford, England converting an 18th century barn into a home with her husband, James.