Biography

Erin Hannigan is principal oboe of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Adjunct Associate Professor of Oboe at Southern Methodist University. In June 2008, Erin’s first solo CD, From Hafiz to Firewing (and Beyond), was released on the Crystal Records label (CD 820). Outside Dallas, she has been a guest principal oboist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, and Los Angeles Philharmonic. Erin performs in the summers with the Mainly Mozart Orchestra (San Diego, CA) and the Music in the Mountains Festival (Durango, CO). She is on the faculty of the Festival Institute at Round Top.

Before coming to Dallas, Erin was a member of the Rochester Philharmonic from 1994 - 2001, and was a faculty member at the Eastman School of Music as instructor of Baroque oboe. Erin is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory, where she studied with James Caldwell. She received her master’s degree and the prestigious Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, where she was a student of Richard Killmer.