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Mead Witter School of Music Guest Artist Series

Morphy Hall
Mosse Humanities Building

Margaret Marco, oboe
Lindsay Flowers, oboe
James Waldo, cello
Will Preston, harpsichord
Members of the Wisconsin Oboe Studio

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Program

Sonata II in D Major Elisabeth      Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729)
I. Presto
II. Adagio
III. Presto
IV. Presto

Sonate IIe in G Major Jacques      Christophe Huguenet (1680-1729)
from Première Òeuvre des Sonates
I. Air grave
II. Gay
III. Grave
IV. Gavotte
V. Gigue 1 – Gigue 2

Sonata IIa in G minor       Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755)
I.Allemanda
II.Allegro
III.Largo
IV. Allegro

Members of the Wisconsin Oboe Studio

Sonata II in D Major       Elisabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729)
I. Presto
II. Adagio
III. Presto
IV. Presto

Lindsay Flowers, oboe

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Margaret Marco is the Professor of Oboe at the University of Kansas and principal oboist of the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra. Her career began as the principal oboist of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Maracaibo in Venezuela and has since taken her around the globe. She has performed and taught master classes at Central and China Conservatories in Beijing; the Festival of New American Music in Sacramento, California; New Frontiers Music Festival in Laramie, Wyoming; the Sunflower Music Festival in Topeka, KS; Encuentro de Oboes y Fagots, in Costa Rica and many International Double Reed Society Conferences. She served as Chair of the IDRS Fernand Gillet-Hugo Fox Oboe Competition from 2008-2019.

A strong advocate for new music for the oboe, Dr. Marco has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mid-America Arts Alliance, Mu Phi Epsilon and the University of Kansas to commission, perform and record new chamber works by American composers. As a member of the flute, oboe and piano trio Allégresse, Dr. Marco can be heard on the CDs Allégresse; music for flute, oboe and piano and Fresh Ink. She has presented her lecture/recital Hidden Gems: Music for Oboe and Bass Continuo by Eighteenth-Century French Composers at several prestigious universities and conferences in the States and abroad. Her CD of the same title was released in January of 2009 to critical acclaim and a second CD will appear in spring 2022. She can be heard performing Quiet City by Aaron Copland with the University of Kansas Wind Ensemble for the NAXOS label and the music of Ingrid Stölzel and Juliana Hall on NAVONA Records.  She performed the world premiere of A Siege of Herons for oboe d’amore, strings and percussion by Forrest Pierce with the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra in April 2016, a work she commissioned with a generous grant from the Mid-America Arts Alliance. Her most recent CD is entitled Still Life and features new music for oboe, oboe d’amore and English horn by Kansas composers.