Music Education
BM Northwestern University
COURSES TAUGHT:
Class Oboe
CONTACT INFORMATION:
773-325-7260
About
Oboist Naomi Bensdorf enjoys an active career as a performer and educator. Along with holding principal Oboe positions in the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Elmhurst Symphony, Ms. Bensdorf performs regularly with orchestras such as the Chicago Chamber Orchestra and the Da Corneto Opera orchestra. In demand as a freelance musician, she has recently performed with the Tulsa Opera, the Elgin Symphony, the South Bend Symphony, Light Opera Works, and others. Ms. Bensdorf also is a founding member of the Kallima Quintet, an innovative chamber music group. She can be heard on recordings with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and in a collection of the chamber music of renowned Chicago composer M. William Karlins, available on Hungaroton Records.
Ms. Bensdorf is often working with young musicians, teaching private Oboe lessons at the North Shore School for the Arts and the Music Institute of Chicago and coaching wind chamber music at the award-winning Midwest Young Artists program. Since 2004, she has been instructor of Oboe at Trinity College.
A native of Evanston, Illinois, Ms. Bensdorf received her Bachelor of Music Magna cum Laude from Northwestern University, where she studied with Ray Still. As a 1999-2000 Fulbright Scholar, she traveled to Germany to study with internationally renowned Oboist Ingo Goritzki and perform with the Southwest German Baroque Soloists. She is currently working towards a Master of Music Degree from DePaul University, where she studies with Robert Morgan.