Rick Basehore - Oboe
Rick Basehore, a Rochester, NY native, is an active freelance oboist in the DC metro area. He moved to DC in 2008 to assume the duties of Co-Principal Oboist with "The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band, spending his four-year enlistment playing for 2 Presidents, various visiting foreign dignitaries, and tens of thousands of Americans on four separate tours across the country.
He currently holds positions in the Allentown, Annapolis, Fairfax, Harrisburg, and Maryland Symphony orchestras, as well as the Sarasota Opera orchestra.
Rick can be heard on recordings of the Eastman Bach Children's Choir, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, and the Grammy-nominated professional choir, Seraphic Fire. For 15 years, Rick travelled across the world, playing music festivals in places such as St. Petersburg, Jerusalem, Aspen, and Stuttgart. Between 1998 and 2002 he toured extensively with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra; in 2001, he spent two months playing with the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra in Yekaterinburg, Russia; and in 2008 he was part of a new production of Porgy and Bess at the Opera Comìque in Paris.
Rick trained at the Eastman School of Music with Richard Killmer, the University of Cincinnati with Mark Ostoich, and the New World Symphony.
When he's not practicing, performing, teaching, making reeds, or driving to a job, he is probably watching PBS, running PianoMart.com, or preparing someone's taxes.