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 Thomas O’Connor, a highly regarded oboist who has performed extensively on modern and historical oboes, is also the Co-Founder, Music Director and Conductor of Santa Fe Pro Musica. He has performed with all of the major classical music organizations in New Mexico including the Santa Fe Opera, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Music from Angel Fire and the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. He frequently performs outside of New Mexico with festivals and orchestras including the International Festival at the Domaine Forget in Canada, the Oregon Bach Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Oregon Festival of American Music, the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra of San Francisco, the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival in California, the Maryland Handel Festival, the American Bach Soloists in San Francisco, the Bach Ensemble, Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, Dallas Chamber Orchestra, and Boston Baroque. He was formerly the Artistic Director of the Ernest Bloch Music Festival at Newport in Oregon and also served on the faculty of Texas Tech University.
 He has recordings with Sony, Telarc and Dorian including a GRAMMY® nominated disc of the chamber version of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde for Dorian Records.
O’Connor is a graduate of the University of New Mexico and has pursued graduate studies at the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Musicale, Montreux, Switzerland.
O’Connor will be performing with Willy Sucre & Friends on March 20, 2011. |
