Kathryn Montoya
Baroque oboe
Kathryn Montoya earned her degrees at Oberlin Conservatory and Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington. Kathryn has performed with many ensembles, including the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Ensemble Arion, the Cleveland Orchestra, Tafelmusik, Chicago Opera Theatre, Aradia Ensemble, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica, Apollo’s Fire, and the Washington Bach Consort among others. Ms. Montoya is a recipient of the prestigious Performers Certificate at IU and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Germany. Her interests extend to medieval and renaissance repertoire where she has performed on shawms, recorders, and sordune with Hesperus and the Newberry Consort. She is currently professor of recorder and baroque oboe at University of North Texas and has taught master classes at Northwestern University, Eastern Illinois University, and appeared on faculty at Oberlin’s Baroque Performance Institute. Kathryn very much enjoys recording and has been broadcast on NPR’s Performance Today and can be found on the Naxos, CPO, and NCA labels.