Laura Reynolds

Laura Reynolds is an active chamber and orchestral performer throughout Northern California and serves as Principal oboist with the California Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony, and second oboe and English horn with Marin Symphony. Laura has always been a chamber music enthusiast and is a member of the wind quintet Avenue Winds and a former member of the wind trio Trois Bois and Citywinds, a San Francisco woodwind quintet dedicated to performing music by living composers.  She is a member of the applied faculty of Sonoma State University as well as of the Pre-College and Continuing Education Divisions at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she additionally works as an arts administrator. A graduate of the University of Michigan and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, her principal teachers were Harry Sargous and William Bennett.

Favorite composer

Mahler — every inner experience of thought or emotion you have ever had is found in his music, and many times all in one symphony!