Guest Artist Series: Michele Fiala, Oboe

Oboist Michele Fiala performs with faculty artists Martin Schuring and Andrew Campbell.

Michele Fiala is the Associate Professor of Oboe at Ohio University and has performed throughout the United States, Italy, England, Germany, France and Canada. Her two CDs of contemporary oboe music - The Light Wraps You and Overheard - are on the MSR Classics label. Fanfare Magazine called her playing “light, fluent, and wonderfully flexible” and BBC Music Magazine wrote of her “impressive command.” Daniel Coombs of Audiophile Audition spoke of Fiala's “beautiful tone and a very expressive range of color and ample, fluid technique” and Carla Rees in MusicWeb International wrote “The oboe sound is rich and warm…the playing is excellent, and the musical ideas are communicated well.” Jeanne Belfy, in The Double Reed, called her first CD “a classy affair from start to finish” and said, “...the interpretations are elegant...Fiala's tone is light, mellow and flexible.” Michele also appears on recordings on Naxos, Centaur and Equilibrium Records.