Humbert Lucarelli

Humbert Lucarelli, hailed as “America’s leading oboe recitalist” by the New York Times, has performed extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, Japan, Australia, and Asia. He has appeared as soloist at the Aspen Music Festival, the Victoria International Festival, the Chautauqua Festival, and the Romantic Music Festival in Newport, Rhode Island. International performances include appearances with the American Symphony Orchestra, I Solisti Veneti, Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra, London’s Orchestra of St. John’s Smith Square, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de São Paulo, and the Philharmonia Virtuosi.

Additional chamber music collaborations have included the Original Bach Aria Group and the American, Colorado, Emerson, Leontovich, Manhattan, Muir, Panocha, and Philadelphia string quartets. In the summer of 2002, Mr. Lucarelli was the first American oboist to be invited to perform and teach at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China. He has performed and recorded with some of the world’s leading conductors including Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Fiedler, Kiril Kondrashin, Josef Krips, James Levine, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Artur Rodinshky, Georg Solti, Leopold Stokowski and Igor Stravinsky. Mr. Lucarelli has recorded for Koch International, Lyrichord, MCA Classics, Musical Heritage Society, Pantheon, and Stradivari. John Corigliano’s Oboe Concerto, both written for and premiered by Mr. Lucarelli, is available on BMG Classics. Professor of Oboe at The Hartt School and the Conservatory of Music at SUNY-Purchase, he has been the recipient of a Solo Recitalists Fellowship, Consortium Commissioning and Music Recording grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.