Catherine Weinfield-Zell, oboe

From 2012-2016, Ms.Weinfield-Zell served as second Oboe and English Horn with the Florida Grand Opera. From 2009 – 2013, she held the position of both Assistant Principal Oboe and principal English Hornist with the Honolulu (now Hawaii) Symphony and the Hawaii Opera Theater. Ms. Weinfield has also performed with the Cleveland Orchestra; the Metropolitan Opera; the San Diego and Charleston Symphonies; the Naples Philharmonic; the new-music ensemble Alarm Will Sound; the Canton, Akron, and Princeton Symphonies; the Philadelphia-based Symphony in C, as well as the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, an orchestra made up of North, Central, and South American musicians. Ms. Weinfield is also Associate Principal oboist of the Strings Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, a position she has held since 2010. In addition, she has also been Principal Oboe of the Opera in the Ozarks, the Breckenridge, Spoleto, Aspen, Lake George, and Kent/Blossom Music Festivals, as well as participated in the newly formed Britten-Pears Aldeburgh World Orchestra in Aldeburgh, England. An active chamber musician as well, Ms. Weinfield is a founding member of Trio de Salzedo, a Miami-based trio dedicated to performing new and innovative works for oboe, voice, and percussion. She has also performed as a chamber musician in the Sitka Summer Music Festival in Anchorage, Alaska, as a soloist with the Cavani String Quartet, featured in recital on WCLV, Cleveland’s classical music radio station, and is a founding member of the Princeton-based SouthMill Chamber Players.