(Editor's Note: With thi's profile of Jerome Roth, we complete the article on the NYP oboe section, begun in the last issue. Again our thanks to Neil Parker of the Philharmonic's publicity department.)
JEROME
ROTH, second oboist with the New York Philharmonic, joined the
orchestra in 1961. Previously he had been principal oboist with
the Adolph Busch Chamber Orchestra, the Mozart Orchestra, and
the Little Orchestra Society. From 1951-61 Mr. Roth was a member
of the New York Woodwind Quintet which performed widely throughout
the world, and made a State Department sponsored tour of South
America in 1956. He is presently a member of the New York Philharmonic
Woodwind Quintet.
Mr. Roth was born in New York City and studied at the Henry Street Settlement Music School and The Juilliard School. In addition to the oboe, he also studied composition with Roy Harris, and has made numerous transcriptions of string quartets and Bach organ works for woodwind quintet.