Bach Aria Soloists’ Annual Hauskonzert is back! Guest oboist Margaret Marco joins the women of BAS for exquisite sonatas and arias by Bach, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Handel, and more! Enjoy scrumptious food and new friendships in the joyful home of BAS Board member Benny Lee and Edith Lee.
Doors open at 6:30 pm, Konzert starts at 7:00 pm, followed by a light dinner.
Tickets are very limited and will not be sold at the door. Subscribers have priority access to this Hauskonzert. Subscribe today! Address provided upon registration.
Adults $85
Margaret Marco, Oboe
Dr. Margaret Marco is Professor of Oboe at the University of Kansas School of Music and principal oboist of the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra. She performs frequently with the Kansas City Symphony and is a founding member of NAVO Trio, an oboe, violin, and piano trio dedicated to the performance, discovery, and commissioning of music by women composers. She began her professional career as the principal oboist of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Maracaibo in Venezuela. Since then, her many solo, chamber and orchestral performances have taken her to a variety of prestigious international venues in locations such as Japan, Costa Rica, England, Canada, the Czech Republic, Spain, Italy and China where she performed and presented master classes at the distinguished Central Conservatory and China Conservatory in Beijing. Other festivals and concert appearances include the Festival of New American Music in Sacramento, California; the Conservatorio de Música in Puerto Rico; New Frontiers Music Festival in Laramie, Wyoming; the Sunflower Music Festival in Topeka, KS; Encuentro de Oboes y Fagotes in Costa Rica and many International Double Reed Society (IDRS) Conferences. She served as Chair of the prestigious IDRS Fernand Gillet-Hugo Fox Oboe Competition from 2009-2017 and holds degrees from Northwestern University, The University of Iowa and the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.
A strong advocate for new music for her instrument, Dr. Marco has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mid-America Arts Alliance, Mu Phi Epsilon and the University of Kansas to perform and record new chamber works by American composers. She can be heard with the KU Wind Ensemble performing Copland’s Quiet City on the NAXOS label and on NAVONA Records performing Gorgeous Nothings by Ingrid Stölzel and Bells and Grass by Juliana Hall. Other recordings include her solo CDs, Hidden Gems: Oboe Sonatas of the French Baroque,Vols. I&II, Still LIfe: New Music for Oboe, Oboe d'amore and English horn, Allégresse; music for flute, oboe and piano and Fresh Ink, which received positive reviews in American Record Guide, Chamber Music Today and the International Double Reed Society Journal. She is heard frequently performing on Kansas Public Radio. In 2016 she commissioned the A Siege Of Herons, a concerto for oboe d’amore and strings by KU composition professor Forrest Pierce, which she premiered with the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra. She recently traveled to Mexico, where she performed concerts and taught classes at several prominent institutions, including the Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey, Universidad Veracruzana’s Facultad de Música, Instituto Superior de Música del Estado de Veracruz, Conservatorio de Música de Celaya, and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Latin America's largest university.