Laura Ann Ross
Adjunct Professor, oboe

 

Laura Ann Ross, an active freelance oboist and teacher in the Nashville area, has been appointed as the adjunct professor of oboe at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN. She is the acting principal oboist of the Murfreesboro Symphony Orchestra and a substitute for both the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and the New World Symphony in Miami, FL. Before moving to Nashville, Ross lived in the Philadelphia area where she played principal oboe with the Great Hall Chamber Orchestra in Bryn Mawr and served as a substitute for both the Haddonfield Symphony (NJ) and the Reading Symphony (PA). She was also a faculty member at Suburban Music School in Media, PA.

Under the tutelage of Louis Rosenblatt, Ross earned a Master of Music degree from the Esther Boyer College of Music at Temple University in 2006. She earned a Bachelor of Music (Summa cum laude) in 2004 from Miami University (OH) as a student of Andrea Ridilla.

In the fall of 2007she was a participant in the Nicholas Daniel Masterclass in Udine, Italy. She has also participated in the National Orchestral Institute, Pierre Monteux School and the Oboe Repertoire Festival in Paris and Côte d’Azur, France. Ross was also a founding member of the Athena Ensemble, and all-female oboe, clarinet and bassoon trio based in the Philadelphia area.