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E-Mail
geoffrey.deemer@fandm.edu
Phone
717-291-4348
Office
Meyran 107
Courses
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Geoffrey Deemer
Adjunct Instructor, Oboe
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Cape Cod born oboist Geoffrey Deemer has been principal oboe of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia since 2002. He has also performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony. From 1997-2001, Mr. Deemer was the principal oboe of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra.
"Among the most consummate musical artists" in the region, Mr. Deemer has performed concerti with a number of ensembles and orchestras, including the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Ballet, and Schola Nova. He also played solo concerts of Bach cantatas and orchestral suites during his summers at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. A recording of his solo performance of Philadelphia composer Romeo Cascarino's Blades of Grass, under the baton of Joann Falletta, will be released by Naxos in early 2007.
Mr. Deemer received his early training at the Longy School of Music (Cambridge, MA) and the New England Conservatory of Music (Boston). He spent summers studying at Tanglewood. In 2001, he graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music where he held the Friends of Curtis Fellowship.
A student of Richard Woodhams, Mr. Deemer has performed with the world's best conductors including James Levine, Christoph Eschenbach, Kurt Mazur, Simon Rattle, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Mstislav Rostropovich, André Previn, Sir Neville Marriner, David Zinman, Robert Spano, Hans Vonk, Otto Werner-Muller, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Marin Alsop, Yuri Temirkanov, and Jahja Ling.
Mr. Deemer has been teaching oboe performance at the Pennsylvania Academy of Music since 2005 and joined the faculty of Franklin & Marshall College in 2006. |
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