London has new principal oboe
mainJuliana Koch has quietly moved from the Royal Danish Opera to the London Symphony Orchestra as principal oboe.
A prizewinner at the ARD International Music Competition 2017, she will share principal oboe duties with Olivier Stankiewicz.
She will also hold the title of professor of oboe at the Royal College of Music.
This is very old news. Are you just coming out of hibernation?
Being a bit snarky, are we? It was announced in June, just a couple of months ago.
True. It was on all the newswires. I saw it on the home page of the New York Times that day.
One wonders if after a hard Brexit both Olivier and Juliana would have to return to France and Germany respectively. Or, will the LSO have to prove that there isn’t a British player who is capable of filling the chair in order to keep both these excellent players?
Maybe though, Jonathan Kelly will have to return from the Berlin Phil and with Sarah Roper from the Seville Orchestra, do a swap! Strange world we live in.
Geoffrey Bridge Chairman of the British Double Reed Society
Presumably the exhaustive audition process will prove this, unless they have to show that no British players are appointable, in which case they’ll never be able to hire a foreign player again.
If you win an open audition, by definition you’ve demonstrated, if not that no resident of that country is qualified, but that you’re the best available candidate, which should be enough. If Man U can continue to sign foreign footballers, I assume the LSO can sign a foreign principal oboe, even post-Brexit.
She will only hold the title of professor, or will she also do the job?
Is it possible and legal in Britain, to be a professor and have a full time orchestra job at the same time?
Yes it is.
Many “full-time” professionals have to do other stuff too. There’s not money sloshing around orchestras here like there is in the states.
But how is that possible, to do both jobs, fully?
Don’t require both jobs 100% and more of the person?
Or is it an indirect admittance, that a full time orchestra musician job is actually only a part time job with lots of spare time on the side? Same for a music professor?
Er…Preucil taught as well as performed in the orchestra in Cleveland.
Even at US universities, teaching is no more than 5-10 hours a week during term. And a few hours a week of administrative tasks. It would be fairly easy to combine with performing in a professional orchestra if both parties agreed.
I see, but 5-10 hours teaching a week is a part time professorship, not full time.
Koch… any relation?
Just possibly, but it’s a very common name.
Despite Brexit.
Wait until it’s here. That ‘old delusional farts want their glorious Empire back’ small majority’s decision at the voting booth.
“Small majority”? The facts:
While the national result was relatively close (52 per cent v 48 per cent), a much larger majority of parliamentary seats supported Brexit – a whopping 64 per cent of seats in Great Britain voted Leave. Around 75 per cent of constituencies won by the Conservatives in the general election voted to Leave.
But back to music…
What are you trying to say? that some parts of the country, some constituencies were more in favor of Brexit? Did anybody doubt that?
But then you also must mention all the centers of intelligence and academic rigor, the university towns, that voted overwhelmingly against it.
And the people below 60, pretty much all people who actually still work and pay the most of the taxes, who voted against it.
The data is clear. Old people and stupid (uneducated) people voted in favor of Brexit.
So you are saying that the billionaires Sir James Dyson, of vacuum cleaner fame, and Tim Martin, the founder of the Wetherspoons pub chain, who are both active Leave supporters, are both stupid (i.e. uneducated) old men, is that it?
What a thoroughly stupid remoaner comment.
Congratulations, Ms Koch, and best wishes for a long and satisfying career!