Nancy Clauter
Associate Professor of Oboe

Telephone: 859-257-8171

Email: oboenan@uky.edu

Personal Web Page:
www.uky.edu/~oboenan

At UK since: 1997

Oboe professor Nancy Clauter is renowned for her performance in solo and chamber music concert venues. Ms. Clauter was a founding member of Quintessence Chamber Ensemble, a woodwind quintet based in Phoenix, Arizona where she taught for 15 years prior to coming to UK. Quintessence was a winner of the Best Wind Group prize at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and has toured throughout the US, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Germany. She stills frequently substitutes with Quintessence and performs at the Bay Music Festival in Northern Michigan during the summers. An active commissioning ensemble, Quintessence has premiered works by Lalo Schifrin, Joan Tower, Chinary Ung, Brent Michael Davids, and other prominent American composers.

Ms. Clauter's recent performances include Principal Oboe with the Lexington Philharmonic, Principal Oboe with the Classical Music Festival (Eisenstadt, Austria), soloist with the Sun City Concert Band, and duos with Peter Simpson (Bassoonist) at national meetings of MENC, NACWPI, and IDRS.

Ms. Clauter's teachers include Martin Schuring and William Criss, and she has performed at Master Classes with Elaine Douvas, Basil Reeves, and Ray Still.

A lover of Central American culture, Ms. Clauter recently returned from Mexico and Guatemala where she completed research on the chirimía, a relative of the oboe still used in the Mayan cultures.