Angela DeBoer
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Angela DeBoer comes to Middle Tennessee from Oklahoma where she has been a member of the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra and worked with the Tulsa Ballet and Tulsa Opera. Prior to her work in Oklahoma, DeBoer was active in the freelance community in and around Chicago, performing with ensembles such as the Milwaukee, Grant Park, Elgin, South Bend, Northwest Indiana, Duluth-Superior and Illinois Symphonies as well as with Symphony II, Chicago Sinfonietta, Millar Brass Ensemble, Chicago Opera Theatre and the Illinois and Fort Wayne Philharmonics. She also spent several seasons as a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the training orchestra for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a group with which she also appeared as soloist. She has attended several competitive music festivals including Tanglewood, the National Repertory Orchestra, National Orchestral Institute and the Music Academy of the West.
Angela received her Bachelor of Music degree from DePaul University in Chicago, studied in the Orchestral Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music and received her Master of Music from Northwestern University. Her primary teachers include Gail Williams, David Krehbiel, Jerome Ashby and Jonathan Boen.
DeBoer has been an active teacher, maintaining a private studio in the Chicago area for a number of years as well as teaching as a graduate assistant at Northwestern University. She has presented masterclasses in addition to instructional chamber music and solo performances in the public schools of Chicago and New York as well as in the City Colleges of Chicago and at the Amadeus Piano Festival. She was also faculty member of the Barthelmes Conservatory in Tulsa.
Angela has had the opportunity to work under the batons of many leading conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Kurt Masur, Seiji Ozawa, Christoph Eschenbach, Mstislav Rostropovich, Andre Previn and Pierre Boulez. She has also had numerous occasions to play the Wagner Tuba and has performed works by Bruckner, Stravinsky, Wagner and Rouse on the instrument. In addition to her classical playing, DeBoer has recorded with jazz legend Clark Terry and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra; a project which earned a coveted five-star review from Downbeat magazine.
A native of Minnesota, Angela is a horse lover and enjoys all types of horse related disciplines, but none more than cross-country jumping (though she has yet to play the hunting horn while riding!). She enjoys many diverse activities including mountain biking in Colorado, camping in Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Northern Minnesota and has run in the Chicago Marathon.
Angela received her Bachelor of Music degree from DePaul University in Chicago, studied in the Orchestral Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music and received her Master of Music from Northwestern University. Her primary teachers include Gail Williams, David Krehbiel, Jerome Ashby and Jonathan Boen.
DeBoer has been an active teacher, maintaining a private studio in the Chicago area for a number of years as well as teaching as a graduate assistant at Northwestern University. She has presented masterclasses in addition to instructional chamber music and solo performances in the public schools of Chicago and New York as well as in the City Colleges of Chicago and at the Amadeus Piano Festival. She was also faculty member of the Barthelmes Conservatory in Tulsa.
Angela has had the opportunity to work under the batons of many leading conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Kurt Masur, Seiji Ozawa, Christoph Eschenbach, Mstislav Rostropovich, Andre Previn and Pierre Boulez. She has also had numerous occasions to play the Wagner Tuba and has performed works by Bruckner, Stravinsky, Wagner and Rouse on the instrument. In addition to her classical playing, DeBoer has recorded with jazz legend Clark Terry and the Chicago Jazz Orchestra; a project which earned a coveted five-star review from Downbeat magazine.
A native of Minnesota, Angela is a horse lover and enjoys all types of horse related disciplines, but none more than cross-country jumping (though she has yet to play the hunting horn while riding!). She enjoys many diverse activities including mountain biking in Colorado, camping in Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Northern Minnesota and has run in the Chicago Marathon.