Diana Doherty
Oboe
Australian oboist Diana Doherty won First Prize in the 1995 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and gave acclaimed New York and Washington D.C. recital debuts, as well as a New York concerto debut at Lincoln Center. She also received YCA’s Mortimer Levitt Career Development Award for Women Artists. In 2001, she won the Australian Entertainment MO award for Classical/Opera Performer of the Year for her premiere recording of Graeme Koehne’s oboe concerto, “Inflight Entertainment,” on the Naxos label. In 2002 she performed another new Australian oboe concerto, by composer Ross Edwards, with the Sydney Symphony under the direction of Lorin Maazel. This performance received the 2003 APRA-Australian Music Centre award for best performance of an Australian work, and led to an invitation by Lorin Maazel to perform the work with the New York Philharmonic in 2005.
She joined the Sydney Symphony Orchestra as Principal Oboe in July 1997. Her recordings on the ABC Classics label include Romantic Oboe Concertos with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra under Werner Andreas Albert; “Blues for DD,” a program of folk and jazz influenced works with pianist David Korevaar; and “Souvenirs,” a new album of melodies for the oboe.
She won the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Instrumental Competition in 1985 and the following year completed her Bachelor’s at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, where she was awarded the prize for top graduating student. With the assistance of an Australia Council Overseas Study Grant, she studied in Zurich with Thomas Indermuhle and completed her post-graduate diploma in 1989. In 1991 she captured First Prize in the Prague Spring Festival Competition.
(As of June 2009)
She joined the Sydney Symphony Orchestra as Principal Oboe in July 1997. Her recordings on the ABC Classics label include Romantic Oboe Concertos with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra under Werner Andreas Albert; “Blues for DD,” a program of folk and jazz influenced works with pianist David Korevaar; and “Souvenirs,” a new album of melodies for the oboe.
She won the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Instrumental Competition in 1985 and the following year completed her Bachelor’s at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, where she was awarded the prize for top graduating student. With the assistance of an Australia Council Overseas Study Grant, she studied in Zurich with Thomas Indermuhle and completed her post-graduate diploma in 1989. In 1991 she captured First Prize in the Prague Spring Festival Competition.
(As of June 2009)
