Oboist Michelle Farah is a well-established orchestral and chamber musician based in New York City. In addition to performances with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Santa Fe Opera, American Ballet Theatre, New Jersey Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, The Knights, A Far Cry, Talea Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, and International Contemporary Ensemble, her solo playing has been described as “uniformly excellent” by The New York Times. Michelle is a member of Wavefield Ensemble, a musical collective committed to the adventurous commissioning and programming of contemporary repertoire.

Ms. Farah holds degrees from the Yale School of Music and The Manhattan School of Music. Her primary teachers include Stephen Taylor and Joseph Robinson. While in New Haven, Ms. Farah worked under Vivian Perlis and Libby Van Cleve at the Oral History of American Music, an archive of historic and contemporary interviews with American composers.