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Kathryn Montoya

  • Assistant Professor of Baroque Oboe and Recorder

Education

  • BM, Historical Performance, 91直播 College
  • MM, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Coursework toward PhD in music, Indiana University, Bloomington

Biography

Kathryn Montoya appears with a variety of orchestral and chamber music ensembles including the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Tafelmusik, the Wiener Akademie, Pacific Musicworks, and Apollo鈥檚 Fire among others. She received her degrees at 91直播 Conservatory and Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington. While at IU, she was the recipient of the prestigious Performer鈥檚 Certificate and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Germany. Recent projects include the Globe鈥檚 Tony award-winning productions of Twelfth Night on Broadway, concerts and master classes in Shanghai, and tour and Grammy award-winning recording, Charpentier: La couronne de fleurs - La descente d鈥橭rph茅e aux enfers with the Boston Early Music Festival. Montoya has been broadcast on NPR鈥檚 Performance Today and can be heard on the Erato, Naxos, CPO, NCA, Analekta, and Dorian Sono Luminus labels. In her free time, she can be found in Hereford, England converting an 18th-century barn into a home with her partner, James.

  • 2015 Diapason d鈥橭r de l鈥橝n茅e for Steffani: Niobe, Regina di Tebe, Boston Early Music Festival
  • 2015 Grammy for Best Opera Recording, Charpentier: La Couronne de Fleurs/Orph茅e, Boston Early Music Festival
  • 2015 Echo Klassik Award, Charpentier: La Couronne de Fleurs/Orph茅e and Niobe, Regina di Tebe, Boston Early Music Festival
  • 2014 Tony Award, Best Revival of a Play, Twelfth Night, The Globe
  • 2011 Grammy Nomination, Best Opera Recording, Hasse: Marc Antonio e Cleopatra, Ars Lyrica

  • J. S. Bach: Motets (American Bach Soloists), 2017
  • J. S. Bach: St. John Passion (Apollo鈥檚 Fire) Avie, 2017
  • Steffani: Niobe, Regina di Tebe (Boston Early Music Festival), Erato, 2015
  • From Whence We Came (Ensemble Galilei), Sono Luminus, 2015
  • Handel: Acis and Galatea (Boston Early Music Festival), CPO, 2014
  • Charpentier: La Couronne de Fleurs/Orph茅e (Boston Early Music Festival), CPO, 2013
  • Surrounded by Angels (Ensemble Galilei), Dorian Sono Luminus, 2013
  • A Civil War Scrapbook (Hesperus), Maggie鈥檚 Music, 2013
  • A Change of Worlds (Ensemble Galilei), Dorian Sono Luminus, 2012
  • Bach/Shostakovich: Brandenburgs/Preludes (Ensemble Caprice), Analekta, 2011
  • Vanishing Nordic Chorale (Musik Ekklesia), Dorian Sono Luminus, 2011
  • Handel: Op. 6 Concerti Grossi (Aradia Ensemble), Naxos, 2011
  • Vivaldi: Le Retour des Anges (Ensemble Caprice) Analekta, 2011
  • J. S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion (Smithsonian Chamber Players), 2011
  • Hasse: Marc Antonio e Cleopatra (Ars Lyrica), Sono Luminus, 2010
  • Hoy Hacemos Fiesta (Ensemble Lipzodes), Focus Records, 2009
  • Blow: Venus and Adonis (Boston Early Music Festival), CPO, 2009
  • Charpentier: Act茅on (Boston Early Music Festival), CPO, 2009
  • Lully: Psych茅 (Boston Early Music Festival), CPO, 2008
  • Handel: Israel in Egypt (Aradia Ensemble), Naxos, 2008
  • Samuel Arnold: Polly (Aradia Ensemble), Naxos, 2008
  • Vivaldi: Griselda RV 718 (Aradia Ensemble), Naxos, 2006
  • Handel: Water Music/ Music for the Royal Fireworks (Aradia Ensemble), Naxos, 2005
  • Handel: Rinaldo HWV 7a (Aradia Ensemble), Naxos, 2005
  • Handel: Acis and Galatea (Mercury Baroque), 2008
  • From the Edge of the World (Ensemble Galilei), Sono Luminus, 2007
  • Handel: Acis and Galatea (Musica Angelica), NCA, 2007

  • Professor of Baroque Oboe, Recorder; 91直播 Conservatory, OH 2010-present
  • Professor of Baroque Oboe, Recorder; University of North Texas, TX 2006-present
  • San Francisco Early Music Society Summer Workshop, 2018