Meet Karen, Margaret, jeff, Leslie and Sam of TSO's Woodwind Quintet! Violetta "VI" Vibrato and Roger "Roger" Rhythm meet Karen Large (Flute), Margaret Cracchiolo (oboe), Jeff Keesecker (Bassoon ...

Oboe players produce vibrato by adjusting air flow and embouchure, or the shape of their lips. Trombonists move the instrument’s slide back and forth and use their lips and diaphragms as well.

To an English ear, the wonderful heavy oboe vibrato in the old Vienna Philharmonic is very startling – you can hear it in Kleiber's great Fledermaus recording.

Brittany Bonner (MMus’20) exhales. She glances in a mirror to observe signs of tension in her body. She inhales deeply, picks up her oboe and plays again. The oboist from Mansfield, Texas, is ...

The Niles West High School senior has played Carnegie Hall and some of Europe’s great concert venues. But his biggest accomplishment is playing at all after his stroke in July.