Mark Hill

Mark Hill is Professor of Oboe at the University of Maryland and Principal Oboe of the National Philharmonic. He has performed with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the National Symphony, Orpheus, the Baltimore Symphony, San Diego Symphony, New Jersey Symphony and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and has had long tenures as a member of the New York Chamber Symphony and the Northeast Pennsylvania Phiharmonic. However, it is as a chamber musician that he has devoted his greatest energies, as evidenced by performances with such groups as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Guarneri Quartet, the New York Woodwind Quintet, the Sylvan Winds, the Mendelssohn Quartet, and contemporary music groups such as Speculum Musicae and New York’s Music Today Ensemble. He has been a performer and faculty member of Vermont’s renowned Yellow Barn Festival for the past 22 years. He has recorded on at least 9 major labels and has two acclaimed solo CD recordings on Albany Records, Alchemy and Sad Steps.