Musicians – Oboe

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Manda Cawthon
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Manda Cawthon, oboe

Manda is an oboist and music educator.  She studied oboe with Kelly Odell and then earned her Bachelor of Music from the University of Georgia.  While attending the University of Georgia, she was chosen to travel to Porto Alegra, Brazil, to perform with the Orquestra Sinfonica de Porto Alegre.  After college, she went on to teach elementary music in Georgia and North Carolina.  She has also directed elementary and high school choirs.

An Augusta native, Manda returned to Augusta in 2005.  She has performed throughout Georgia and South Carolina and enjoys playing in many different settings.  She is a preschool music teacher and volunteers her time to teach literacy through music to Kindergarteners.  She also directs a children’s choir at Trinity on the Hill United Methodist Church.

Manda and her husband, Matt, live in Augusta with their four children.  She enjoys adventure racing, singing and dancing with her many young students and, of course, making reeds.

Barbara Cook
oboe

Barbara Cook, oboe

Barbara is a member of the Azalea Trio (www.azaleatrio.com), in addition to serving as oboe instructor for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Talent Development Program and working as a free-lance oboist and private oboe teacher.

Barbara has served on the faculty of Agnes Scott College as an Artist Affiliate. She also worked for over twenty-five years as a Senior Learning Designer for Delta Air Lines, Inc. Barbara has performed with orchestras throughout California, Oregon, Colorado, Alabama, South Carolina and Georgia, including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Opera Orchestra and Atlanta Ballet Orchestra.

Trained as a violinist from the age of 9, Barbara Goorevitch Cook started playing the oboe when she was 12. Six years later, heeding the advice of famed violin professor Stanley Plummer at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Barbara began devoting her full attention to the oboe, winning prizes in the Atwater Kent and Frank Sinatra Musical Performance Awards solo competitions.

She earned a B.A in Music Performance from UCLA, then continued her studies with Laila Storch of Seattle’s Soni Ventorum Quintet and Louis Rosenblatt of the Philadelphia Orchestra. She spends her free hours making reeds, jogging, playing tennis, hiking, and traveling.


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