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Clare Scholtz

Oboe, Chamber Music

B.A. (Minnesota), M.Mus. (Toronto)
email: clare.scholtz@utoronto.ca

 




Clare Scholtz completed her undergraduate music degree as a student of Rhadames Angelucci at the University of Minnesota, studied with Richard Killmer at the Aspen School of Music and received her Masters Degree in Performance from the University of Toronto. She performed as principal oboe of the Saskatoon Symphony for four years, and taught at the University of Saskatchewan. Clare has performed with the National Ballet Orchestra in Toronto, the United States, Europe and across Canada, the Toronto Symphony, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, the Esprit Orchestra, Opera Atelier, Soundstreams, the Shaw Festival, Arraymusic, the Toronto Wind Quintet and as principal oboe and oboe d’amore with Helmuth Rilling at the International Bach Festival. In addition, she has been active in commercial music performance on both oboe and English horn with musicians such as Ray Charles, Michael Buble and David Foster, recording for film scores in Toronto and Los Angeles and performing for many Broadway shows. She is Adjunct Professor of Oboe at the University of Toronto where she teaches courses in Music Education and Performance and is Coordinator of Woodwind Chamber Music. Clare is a faculty member at National Music Camp of Canada and also teaches performance and collaborative skills at the Conference for Performers in Italy at Università Popolare di Roma.





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