Jennifer galloway oboe biography of alberta

Jennifer Galloway

Extracted from FPA Newsletter, December

Jennifer Galloway () is Principal Oboeist with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and recently she joined the ranks of world's best musicians to take part in the World Orchestra for Peace at concerts in the Carnegie Hall, New York and the Chicago Symphony Center.

She was one of 3 oboeists playing with the orchestra, which is made up of 48 musicians from around the world. The World Orchestra was set up by Sir Georg Solti to mark the 50^th anniversary of the UN. The concert at the end of October was to mark the ^th anniversary of Solti's birth.

Jennifer is the grand-daughter of Tom Galloway who was an inspiring Principal Teacher of Music in Bell Baxter in the s.

Her father was the late Richard Galloway who was an Assistant music adviser in Fife and then Music Adviser for Central Scotland. Jennifer studied at the Royal northern College of music in Manchester and was appoin