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Andrea Ridilla - Oboe
ANDREA RIDILLA (M. M. Juilliard, 1981), Professor of Oboe and member of the Miami Wind Quintet, holds a Master of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She is Principal Oboe of the the Classical Music Festival in Eisendstadt, Austria and was Principal Oboe of the Festival International Echternach Orchestra in Luxembourg from 1991-2007. 
She is also Principal Oboe of the Middletown Symphony Symphony under Maestro Carmon DeLeone.
Andrea appeared as concerto soloist in December 2005 with the Guayaquil Symphony Orchestra in Ecuador to critical acclaim by El Universo, "...sparkled with intonation, expression and phrasing..." She was also concerto soloist with the Festival Echternach in Luxembourg, the Moselle Music Festival in Germany, the Classical Music Festival Orchestra in Austria, in Seoul Arts Center, Korea, with the Westmoreland Symphony and the Ashland Symphony. She has been a guest performer in several series concerts with Camerata Pacifica in Santa Barbara, California. She has performed solo recitals throughout Italy in Rome, Florence, Turin and Pisa. Andrea performed in the Festival Internacional de Musica de Camara in Colonia Tovar, Venezuela and was a soloist in the Weiner Bezirkwochen Festival in Vienna. She won the top prize for winds at the 1997-98 Munich Preliminaries of the Torneo Internazionale di Musica Competition, and was one of six international soloists invited to the semi-final/final round of the competition in Rome in May 1998.
She was awarded fellowships to Tanglewood, Yale at Norfolk, and the Music Academy of the West. Prior to her appointment at Miami University, she served as principal oboe with the Las Vegas Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, and the National Orchestra of New York. She has been on the faculties of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the New York State Summer School for the Arts at Saratoga. Her oboe teachers have included Joseph Robinson, Louis Rosenblatt, Allan Vogel, James Caldwell, and Robert Bloom, Hansjörg Schellenberger and Maurice Bourgue.
Andrea was invited by Joseph Robinson, Principal Oboe Laureate of the New York Philharmonic, to be a representative of his Oboe Studio at Duke University in April 2006, as a lecturer and performer. In 2005, she was a Guest Research Scholar at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and Guest Professor at the Udine Conservatory of Music in Italy where she presented a masterclass on the American style of oboe reedmaking. With the Miami Wind Quintet, she recorded three collaborative compact discs with the Prague Wind Quintet, on the Mastersound label, featuring Czech wind music.
She has given master classes throughout the U.S., at the Quebec Conservatories in Canada, Conservatorio Simon Bolivar in Venezuela, and at Tung Hai University in Taiwan, in Ecuador and throughout Korea.
Her current research is in breathing as it relates to oboe tone production, and the formation of gouger blades to expand the possibilities for tone color variations on the oboe. She is an advocate of foreign language study for research and the dissemination of knowledge, and for cultural diversity. She studied French at the Université du Var in Toulon, France, the Université de Genève in Switzerland, and the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon, France. She also studied Italian at the Istituteo Europeo in Florence, Italy.
TEACHING and LEARNING at MIAMI UNIVERSITY:
For her teaching, Professor Ridilla received the Excellence in Teaching Award given by the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities, At Miami University she was a recipient of the Miami University Excellence in Teaching Award , the Alumni Enrichment Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching, the Miami University Star Award, for outstanding support of Miami students.
Oboe students in the studio of Professor Ridilla have been accepted with scholarships and assistantships for graduate and doctoral study in oboe performance at Yale University School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, University of California, Boston University, Temple University, Florida State University, Hartt School of Music, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, California Institute of the Arts and Arkansas State University.
Professor Ridilla's students have enjoyed remarkable accomplishments: Laura Ross, (B.M.) 2004, was a Semi-Finalist in the 2006 Principal Oboe audition for the Dallas Symphony (currently a graduate student at Temple University in Philadelphia, as a student of Louis Rosenblatt), four of her former students hold professorships in oboe in American universities (Tracy Carr (Eastern New Mexico State University), Krista Pfennig-Berning (Wright State University), Lindsay Bird (University of Wyoming), Leigh Ann Woodard (Texas Lutheran University). Others are employed in military service bands, public school teaching positions, or are engaged in graduate/doctoral study.
The Oboe Studio of Professor Andrea Ridilla at Miami University is committed to serving students with diverse lifetime goals: Music Performance and Music Education (graduate and undergraduate), Double Majors (music and another academic discipline), Music Minors, and Elective Oboe Students who want to develop as an oboist, but who choose to major in another area.
Students in the Oboe Studio at Miami University receive special attention in the oboe reedmaking. Many young oboists have not had extensive training in reedmaking prior to university study. Professor’ Ridilla’s pegagogy stresses developing confidence and mastery in students’ reedmaking through a careful apprenticeship of professor and student. Together with the peer group, students gain confidence and an expertise in this challenging aspect of the oboe.
The Oboe Studio of Professor Andrea Ridilla at Miami University honors diversity and welcomes students of all ethnic, social and cultural backgrounds.Andrea Ridilla
Professor of Music
119 Center for the Performing Arts
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 450506
Phone: (513) 529-3014