Oboist to perform music that should have been written for the oboe

Faculty Recital Series: Jennet Ingle, oboe
Date and time: Friday, March 7, 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Location: Rieth Recital Hall
Cost: $7 adults, $5 seniors/students. Available at the door one hour before the concert.

Oboist and Goshen College oboe instructor Jennet Ingle will present a recital of oboe transcriptions on Friday, March 7. The recital will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall.

Ingle’s program is titled “Music that SHOULD Have Been Written for the Oboe, Part II” and features classical works by Felix Mendelssohn, J.S. Bach, George Gershwin and Maurice Ravel, transcribed for oboe and piano. Ingle will be accompanied by pianist Paul Hamilton.

Tickets are $7 adults, $5 seniors and students. Goshen College faculty, staff and students are free with valid ID. Tickets are general admission and will be available for purchase at the door beginning one hour before the concert.

Ingle has built an active career around performing, teaching, making reeds for and writing about the oboe. In March 2007, she was honored to perform the world premiere of Doug Lofstrom’s “Oboe Concertino,” a work commissioned for her by the New Philharmonic Orchestra and the College of DuPage in Illinois. Most recently, she presented Qigang Chen’s spectacular “Extase,” a Chinese/French work involving significant technical challenges, with the South Bend Symphony in 2011.

Ingle has been principal oboist of the South Bend Symphony Orchestra since 2006 and serves as instructor of oboe at Valparaiso University, the University of Notre Dame and Goshen College. She performs frequent concerts with the South Bend Symphony Wind Quintet and educational presentations throughout the community. She also performs as principal oboe with the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra and teaches a number of private students. Ingle is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Richard Killmer. She can be found on the web at www.jennetingle.com.