oboe
Sarah Davol, enjoys a career performing on historical and modern oboes
throughout North America and Europe. She is a founding member of American Classical Orchestra in NYC, and has been principal oboist of Vox Ama Deus Orchestra in Philadelphia for 25 years. She has been featured as concerto soloist with Amor Artis, Bachanalia, Big Apple Baroque, Concert Royal, La Fiocco, REBEL, RYM Ensemble, Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, Washington Bach Sinfonia, Connecticut Early Music Festival, and in Texas with La Follia and Victoria Bach Festival, among other ensembles. She has toured to Germany with Apollo Ensemble and Publick Musick, and to South America and Mexico with Chanticleer and Wiener Akademie with actor John Malkovich. The Metropolitan Museum of Art features her demonstration of historical oboes on their Audioguide. She has played for various productions on Broadway including Bernarda Alba, Mary Poppins, Les Miserables, Porgy & Bess, Jekyll & Hyde, Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma, and more. In addition to performing, Ms. Davol has given lecture demonstrations of the history of the oboe and Baroque ornamentation throughout the U.S.
Ms. Davol may be heard on 50+ CD’s including Vivaldi’s Oboe Concertos in C Major and D minor with Vox Ama Deus and on Double Take: American Reed on Albany Records, which includes her composition “Gulf Migration” that Fanfare Magazine praised as “a wonderfully descriptive work”. Ms. Davol’s recording of Sun Bin Kim’s Aphorisms won a national ASCAP award, and her jazz oboe playing may be heard on TV’s Blues Clues (Murmur Productions). Her music is featured on the soundtrack of the Native American film Our Spirits Don’t Speak English, and her composition, Wulangundawa’ken, (Lenape for “Peace to all People”), was featured on the Englewinds “Tulpe” CD which was listed for Grammy nomination. Her jazz ballad “I’m Fading into the Moonlight” was performed by British pianist Peter Donohoe as an encore to a performance at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia.
“Graceful and colorful solo playing” – Philadelphia Inquirer