Luca de la Florin, Oboe

Ph.D (pending) Musical Arts; Oboe Performance, University of Utah
MM Oboe Performance, Western Michigan University
BM Oboe Performance, Albion College

Biography

Florin has performed with orchestras across the United States including the Utah, Detroit, Toledo, Battle Creek, Jackson, Dexter, and Kalamazoo Symphonies and holds principal positions with Salt Lake Sinfonia and the Timpanogos Symphony Orchestra. Florin has performed under the baton of many leading conductors including JoAnn Falletta, Courtney Lewis, Leonard Slatkin, Thierry Fischer, Rossen Millanov, Hans Graf, Donato Cabrera and many more. In addition to orchestral playing, Florin is an active chamber musician and soloist. He has appeared as soloist with the Utah Philharmonia, Sewanee Festival Orchestra, Albion Symphony Orchestra, and the Timpanogos Symphony Orchestra. Florin has recorded multiple times with the Naxos and Bridge labels.

As a skilled reed-maker, Florin teaches clinics on reed-making and cane preparation. His scientific approach to reed-making has been hailed as “life-changing” by oboists in his master classes.