Today we're sharing Part 2 of our conversation with Dr. Michele Fiala! Michele Fiala is the Professor of Oboe at Ohio University, where she received the 2016 Presidential Research Scholar Award. Fiala performs and records with the Athenia Chamber Ensemble, a faculty ensemble at Ohio University that seeks to develop new and interactive ways of connecting audiences to classical chamber music. Dr. Fiala’s first book, A Performer’s Guide to Nineteenth-Century Italian Oboe Music, is published by Trevco Music Publishing (FL). Her second book, Great Oboists on Music and Musicianship, is coauthored with Martin Schuring and will be released by Oxford University Press in November of 2020. Dr. Fiala has written articles for The Double Reed and I Fiati (Italy) and has edited music for Spartan Press (UK). She was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Double Reed Society, serving four years as Secretary and four years prior to that as the Chair of the Young Artist Oboe Competition. Dr. Fiala received her master’s and doctorate from Arizona State University where she studied with Martin Schuring. Hope you enjoy!
