Laila Storch

Laila Storch (February 28, 1921) is an American oboist and the first woman oboist to graduate from the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, where she studied with Marcel Tabuteau.

Biography

Storch was the principal oboist for the Houston Symphony Orchestra, Carmel Bach Festival, the Bethlehem Bach Festival, Marlboro Music Festival and the Casals Festivals. Additionally, she played with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Kansas City Philharmonic, and the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra. She has also been professor of oboe at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico, for many years at the University of Washington and guest professor at Indiana University as well as the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing. She is one of the longest serving members of the Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet.

Storch is also the biographer of longtime Curtis Institute faculty member and world-renowned solo oboist (1915-1954) of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Marcel Tabuteau.