LARA WICKES
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Lara Wickes grew up in Corvallis, Oregon.  She is the principal oboist of the Santa Barbara Symphony, and has been a member of the Eugene Opera Orchestra and the Oregon Mozart Players.  She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern California where she studied Allan Vogel, Joel Timm, and David Weiss.  She also holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts and a Bachelors degree from the University of Oregon.  She plays regularly with many orchestras in the Los Angeles area, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and in several new music and chamber ensembles, such as the Nimbus Ensemble, Inauthentica, New Century Players, and Mladi.  Lara also plays baroque oboe, and has played baroque oboe with Musica Angelica and the USC Early Music Ensemble.  She is also a founding member of the Baroquen Reeds Oboe Band of Los Angeles.  Appearances at music festivals have included the Lucerne Music Festival under the direction of Pierre Boulez, as well as the Spoleto Festival USA, the Henry Mancini Institute, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, and solo performances at the Chintimini Festival in Oregon.  She has performed in Carnegie hall on both oboe and theremin.  She appeared recently in Walt Disney Concert Hall with the first 10-theremin ensemble to perform since 1933.