Peggy Pearson

Oboist Peggy Pearson is a winner of the Pope Foundation Award for outstanding Accomplishment in Music. Pearson has performed solo, chamber, and orchestral music throughout the U.S. and abroad. A member of the Bach Aria Group and the Boston Chamber Music Society, she is also solo oboist with the Emmanuel Chamber Orchestra. director emerita of, and oboist with the Winsor Music Chamber Series, and a founding member of La Fenice and the Emmanuel Wind Quintet. She was principal oboist of the Boston Philharmonic (2010-15) in addition to appearing as principal oboist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. She has also performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Music from Marlboro, and has toured internationally and recorded with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Pearson was a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute in contemporary music and has premiered numerous works, many of which were written specifically for her. As director of Winsor Music, Inc., she organized the Winsor Music Consortium, a project to commission works for oboe, and commissioned and premiered 30 works on her chamber music series. She was the winner of the 1981 Naumburg Award, which collaborated with the Guild of Composers. Pearson has been on the faculties at Boston Conservatory, MIT (Emerson Scholars Program), Songfest, the Tanglewood Music Center (Bach Institute), the Uninversity of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Wellesley College, the Composers Conference at Wellesley College, and the Longy School of Music of Bard College.