Dr. Laura Medisky is an oboist and Alexander Technique teacher based in Madison, WI. She is a founding member of Black Marigold, a dynamic wind quintet with a strong following that performs throughout South Central Wisconsin. Medisky is founder and co-director of the MadReeds Consortium, in which she performs with the MadReeds Trio and directs the Double Reed Ensemble. She performs regularly in regional large ensembles such as the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and the Madison Symphony Orchestra, and made her Carnegie Hall debut for the MidAmerica Productions Series in 2011.
As a soloist, Dr. Medisky has presented artist recitals at the International Double Reed Society conferences at Arizona State University, University of Redlands, and New York University. In 2010 she performed Bach's Double Concerto for Oboe and Violin with the University Strings at UW-Madison, and in 2014 performed the Marcello Oboe Concerto with the Idaho State-Civic Orchestra Strings in Pocatello, ID. Medisky's debut solo album, Personalities: 21st-century American Music for Oboe, was released in 2012 on the Centaur Records label.
Dr. Medisky has taught oboe at music festivals such as Festival Música das Esferas in Brazil, UW-Madison’s Summer Music Clinic, and Idyllwild Music Festival in California. An AmSAT-certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, she regularly presents Alexander workshops and masterclasses at institutions throughout the U.S. Dr. Medisky maintains a large private oboe studio in Madison, ranging in level from beginners to amateur adults, and she is a regular oboe clinician for area public schools. Currently an adjunct oboe teacher at the Maranatha Baptist University, she has also served on faculty at University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Luther College and Edgewood College.
Dr. Medisky holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UCLA, and Arizona State University, and earned her Alexander Technique certification from the Alexander Technique Center Urbana under the direction of Joan and Alex Murray. Her principal oboe teachers include Nancy Ambrose King, Martin Schuring, Marion Kuszyk and Marc Fink.
As a soloist, Dr. Medisky has presented artist recitals at the International Double Reed Society conferences at Arizona State University, University of Redlands, and New York University. In 2010 she performed Bach's Double Concerto for Oboe and Violin with the University Strings at UW-Madison, and in 2014 performed the Marcello Oboe Concerto with the Idaho State-Civic Orchestra Strings in Pocatello, ID. Medisky's debut solo album, Personalities: 21st-century American Music for Oboe, was released in 2012 on the Centaur Records label.
Dr. Medisky has taught oboe at music festivals such as Festival Música das Esferas in Brazil, UW-Madison’s Summer Music Clinic, and Idyllwild Music Festival in California. An AmSAT-certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, she regularly presents Alexander workshops and masterclasses at institutions throughout the U.S. Dr. Medisky maintains a large private oboe studio in Madison, ranging in level from beginners to amateur adults, and she is a regular oboe clinician for area public schools. Currently an adjunct oboe teacher at the Maranatha Baptist University, she has also served on faculty at University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Luther College and Edgewood College.
Dr. Medisky holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UCLA, and Arizona State University, and earned her Alexander Technique certification from the Alexander Technique Center Urbana under the direction of Joan and Alex Murray. Her principal oboe teachers include Nancy Ambrose King, Martin Schuring, Marion Kuszyk and Marc Fink.
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