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, including one of the final Afternoon Live From the Chazen radio broadcasts and as the first-ever classical ensemble at the Orton Park Festival in Madison. In addition to Black Marigold, Laura has performed with Con Vivo! Chamber Ensemble, the Driftless Winds Reed Trio, and made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2011 for the MidAmerica Productions Series. She also performs regularly in large ensembles such as the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Madison Symphony, Dubuque Symphony, Rockford Symphony, and La Crosse Symphony.
As a soloist, Laura has presented artist recitals at the International Double Reed Society conferences at Arizona State University (2011), University of Redlands (2013), and New York University (2014). In 2010 she performed the Bach Double Concerto for Oboe and Violin with the All-University Strings at UW-Madison, and in 2011 performed Blessings for Solo Oboe, Cello, Two Narrators and Wind Ensemble by Samuel Hazo at the Tri-State Band Festival at UW-Platteville. She is a regular performer for the First Unitarian Society Noon Musicale concert series in Madison, both as a soloist and chamber musician. Laura can be heard on the Centaur Records label on her debut solo CD, Personalities, 21st-century American Music for Oboe.
Laura 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. Her students fill the seats in the Wisconsin Youth Symphony program, Winds of Wisconsin, consistently perform at State Solo and Ensemble and in WSMA High School and Middle School Honors ensembles, and have been recipients of the UW-Madison Summer Music Clinic Tuition Remission Scholarship. Laura has taught oboe at several music festivals, including Festival Música das Esferas in Brazil, UW-Madison’s Summer Music Clinic, and Idyllwild Music Festival in California. She has served on faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Luther College in Decorah, IA and Edgewood College in Madison, WI.
An AmSAT-certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, Laura offers private lessons and is available for group workshops. She has presented Alexander Technique masterclasses at events and music festivals in North and South America, most recently the 2014 IDRS conference in New York and the Idaho State-Civic Symphony String Boot Camp in Pocatello, ID. In 2012, she served a three-day residency at Bowling Green State University in OH, and has presented at several institutions throughout the Midwest and in California and Georgia.
Laura holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UCLA, and Arizona State University, and earned her Alexander Technique certification from the Urbana Center for the Alexander Technique under the direction of Joan and Alex Murray. Her principal oboe teachers include Nancy Ambrose King, Martin Schuring, Marion Kuszyk and Marc Fink, and she further studied with Alex Klein and Allan Vogel.
As a soloist, Laura has presented artist recitals at the International Double Reed Society conferences at Arizona State University (2011), University of Redlands (2013), and New York University (2014). In 2010 she performed the Bach Double Concerto for Oboe and Violin with the All-University Strings at UW-Madison, and in 2011 performed Blessings for Solo Oboe, Cello, Two Narrators and Wind Ensemble by Samuel Hazo at the Tri-State Band Festival at UW-Platteville. She is a regular performer for the First Unitarian Society Noon Musicale concert series in Madison, both as a soloist and chamber musician. Laura can be heard on the Centaur Records label on her debut solo CD, Personalities, 21st-century American Music for Oboe.
Laura 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. Her students fill the seats in the Wisconsin Youth Symphony program, Winds of Wisconsin, consistently perform at State Solo and Ensemble and in WSMA High School and Middle School Honors ensembles, and have been recipients of the UW-Madison Summer Music Clinic Tuition Remission Scholarship. Laura has taught oboe at several music festivals, including Festival Música das Esferas in Brazil, UW-Madison’s Summer Music Clinic, and Idyllwild Music Festival in California. She has served on faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Luther College in Decorah, IA and Edgewood College in Madison, WI.
An AmSAT-certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, Laura offers private lessons and is available for group workshops. She has presented Alexander Technique masterclasses at events and music festivals in North and South America, most recently the 2014 IDRS conference in New York and the Idaho State-Civic Symphony String Boot Camp in Pocatello, ID. In 2012, she served a three-day residency at Bowling Green State University in OH, and has presented at several institutions throughout the Midwest and in California and Georgia.
Laura holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UCLA, and Arizona State University, and earned her Alexander Technique certification from the Urbana Center for the Alexander Technique under the direction of Joan and Alex Murray. Her principal oboe teachers include Nancy Ambrose King, Martin Schuring, Marion Kuszyk and Marc Fink, and she further studied with Alex Klein and Allan Vogel.
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