The Met picks temporary #1 oboe
OrchestrasThe Floridian Mitchell Kuhn will be standing in as acting principal oboe at the Metropolitan Opera for the unspecified future.
He writes:
I am so thrilled (and still a little schocked) to announce that I’ll be joining the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as acting principal oboe. I’m so incredibly lucky to have had such incredible teachers, and I could never thank Eric Olson, Robert Walters, Nathan Hughes, Elaine Douvas, Eugene Izotov, Christopher Philpotts, Jim Daniels, Christopher Banks, and Kenneth Williams enough for teaching me so much about life, auditions, music, oboe, and reeds. I also couldn’t do it without the love and support of my family (Ouida, Kirk, Kathryn), the best friends in the world, and Natalia, who’s heard more oboe mock auditions than anyone rightly deserves. Also, if anyone knows of anyone subletting a place on the UWS please let me know 🙂 See you back in the city!
Does this mean he’s standing in for somebody ?
Nathan Hughes, the former principal oboe, has joined the Minnesota Orchestra. Michael Kuhn will fill that position as acting principal, for now.
Nathan Hughes has gone to Minnesota, so this will be until they get a permanent successor.
Opera is a great place to get better at the instrument – have to be efficient for that 5 hour opera, and you have models of phrasing up on the stage.
Congratulations but keep playing auditions. Temporary means that there will be be auditions for the permanent position at some future date. Anything can happen!
He is aware