Artist description Artist who participates regularly in chamber music events, is a soloist, gives recitals, is the principal oboist in the Springfield(MA) Symphony Orchestra and is the professor of oboe at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst..

Musical Influences John de Lancie, Marcel Moyse, Leon Kirchner

Artist History Fredric T. Cohen is professor of music at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. An active performer as well as teacher, Mr. Cohen appears regularly as principle oboist with the Springfield(MA) Symphony, the Harvard Chamber Orchestra and the Avanti Wind Quintet, a chamber music ensemble in residence at the University. He has been the resident conductor and coordinator of orchestral activities at the University and is the conductor of the orchestra and head of the woodwind program at the Senior Greenwood Music Camp. He has taught oboe, coached chamber music, and conducted Wind Ensembles at the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston University, and the Great Woods Festival. He can be heard on recordings issued by Telarc, Gasparo Records, Northeastern Records, Gunmar Records, BEEP Records, and Opus One Records. In addition, Mr. Cohen has toured in Europe and the United States with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. As soloist, he has premiered concertos by Salvatore Macchia (with the Springfield Symphony), Robert Nieske, Christopher Morris, and Ivan Tcherepnin. He has been a guest artist with such ensembles as the Muir Quartet, The Massachusetts Chamber Players, Boston Baroque, and has performed at the Connecticut Early Music Festival, the Mohawk Trails concerts, and many other festivals. He was a featured artist in the British Double Reed Society's oboe festival at Christ Church College in Canterbury, England and was a featured artist at the 1996 International Double Reed Society's conference in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Mr. Cohen just returned from England where he was the soloist with the Folkestone and Hythe Orchestral Society, performing the Mozart Oboe Concerto.

Location Amherst, Massachusetts - USA

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