Dr. Rachel Becker is Assistant Professor of Musicology and Oboe at Boise State University. She performs with the Boise Baroque Orchestra, Boise Philharmonic, and Opera Idaho, and remains active internationally as a soloist and in ensembles. She has worked with conductors including Sir Roger Norrington, Peter Donohoe, Paul Daniel, and Howard Shelley, and with the King’s College and St John’s College, Cambridge choirs. She has performed at Cadogan Hall, King’s Place, and at the Victoria and Albert Museum where she premiered Tim Watts’ opera Kepler’s Trial.
Rachel received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, and her MM in Oboe Performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Mark Ostoich. Her book Valuing Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera Fantasias for Woodwind Instruments is published by Routledge.
Rachel is a Howarth Artist, and performs on a Howarth XM oboe and a Howarth s5 English horn.