Joseph Robinson has been named the new principal oboist of the New York Philharmonic, succeeding Harold Gomberg who recently retired. Mr. Robinson, who is 38, was born in Lenoir, North Carolina and studied the oboe with John Mack and Marcel Tabuteau. He holds degrees from Davidson College and the Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He has been principal oboist of the Mobile and the Atlanta Symphonies and formerly taught at the University of Maryland. He is presently instructor of oboe at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem where he is also first oboist with the Piedmont Chamber Orchestra. In October, 1978 he will perform the Vivaldi D Minor Concerto with the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta. Ronald Roseman and Albert Goltzer have been acting co-principals in the Philharmonic for the 1977-78 season.
DeVere Moore has joined the faculty of the College -- Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati. He was previously assistant first oboist of the Chicago Symphony, principal oboist of the New Zealand Broadcasting Orchestra, and most recently, a member of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He has taught at the Oberlin Conservatory as well as at Southern Methodist and Roosevelt University. He is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music.
Adrian Gnam has left his faculty positions at the Cincinnati Conservatory and the Ohio University at Athens to accept an administrative post with the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington.
Cheryl Priebe has joined the faculty of the West Virginia University at Morgantown.
Tom Brittain is teaching at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.
Michael Rosenberg is a member of the faculty of the Shepherd School of Music of Rice University in Houston, Texas.
Sarah Bennett is assistant professor of oboe and theory at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Virginia Stitt has joined the faculty of Southern Utah State College at Cedar City.
George Riordan is a member of the faculty of the Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin.
Stephen Colburn, first oboist of the Milwaukee Symphony, is general director and conductor of the Milwaukee Chamber Music Society; he has also been named conductor of the Racine (Wisconsin) Symphony, and is first oboist of the Santa Fe Opera. In a May, 1976 concert of the Chamber Music Society's wind group, Mr. Colburn's imaginative programming brought to an enthusiastic audience the US premiere of Jean Francaix's dance suite from his 1972 The Troubles of Sophie ballet, Spohr's Notturno for Turkish Band, Op. 34; and Mozart's Divertimento, K 186.
Daniel Stolper of the Michigan State University faculty is one of four musicians (Ida Kafavian, violinist, and the pianists James Tocco and William Doppmann are the others) to be named "artists-inresidence" by the Michigan Orchestra Association for the 1977-78 season. He will appear as soloist with community and college orchestras across the state as well as teaching master classes and performing recitals in schools. His repertoire for these concerts includes concerti of Mozart, Handel, and Vivaldi, as well as Francaix's L'Horloge de Flore, Howard Hanson's Pastorale, Op. 38, and the Hummel Introduction, Theme and Variations. In November he performed the Penderecki Capriccio during the composer's visit to the Interlochen Arts Academy, and was soloist in the first performance of Greg Steinke's Atavism for oboe, bassoon and wind ensemble (with Edgar Kirk, bassoonist) during a symposium of new works for winds on the East Lansing campus. With the Richards Quintet, he performed at the White House in August at a state dinner honoring the president of Tanzania.