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I first searched woodwind.org, but a lot of their website is broken.

I just moved from Louisiana to Connecticut and am looking for lessons for my daughters (horn and oboe). Previously I played in the Civic Orchestra of Baton Rouge. I would bring my daughters with me to rehearsals and they would take lessons from a graduate student. I’ve contacted horn and oboe professors at the Heart School of Music and the UCONN School of Music but have not been able to get recommendations for a graduate student to teach private lessons.

Any suggestions? I really need to find an oboe teacher just to get my daughter decent reeds.

Which end of Connecticut are you in? I’m guessing you’re closer to Hartford?

Anyhow, you could try finding contact info for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra people:

https://hartfordsymphony.org/musicians/

@arpthark might have some contacts.

The RI philharmonic operates a music school:

https://www.riphil.org/?utm_source=Goog ... um=Organic

That may get you some contact info.

A lot of the musicians in New England bounce around since the distance between paying gigs isn’t really all that huge.

I’m in Simsbury on the west side of Hartford.

You could also try contacting the union:

https://ctvalleymusicians.org/#:~:text= ... onnecticut.

@KerryAbear one of my best friends is an oboist who grew up in Glastonbury. I'll see who he studied with in high school and see if he has any recommendations.

I would highly recommend her at least take a couple of lessons with Dr. Joshua Michal, hornist with the Hartford Symphony and the horn professor at UMass Amherst. Josh and I did our DMA together, and he is a phenomenal hornist and teacher with zero ego.

I actually finally found decent reeds on Etsy and now buy them from the maker's web site. Several of us are now using them; we are at 2600' altitude which makes sea level reeds way too stiff, so we buy her student reeds, which are perfect for where we live. https://ownbydoublereeds.com/

I have tried a MYRIAD of commercial reeds, and none of them, despite all the self-congratulation of the makers, have worked. The Ownby reeds do work and are extremely well made. Ms. Ownby also has a yoga studio, and lives in Chattanooga.