Lara Saville Dahl

From College of Fine Arts and Communications

Lara Saville Dahl is currently a lecturer of oboe and music survey at Georgia State University. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from Arizona State University where she studied with Martin Schuring, and her Bachelor of Music degree from Brigham Young University, studying with Geralyn Giovannetti.

In fall 2003, Dahl was the sabbatical replacement for oboe professors Geralyn Giovannetti at Brigham Young University and Stephen Caplan at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Prior to her appointment at Georgia State University, Dahl was adjunct instructor of oboe at Utah State University. In addition to her university studies, during the summer of 2007 Dahl studied with Joseph Robinson, former principal oboist of the New York Philharmonic.

Dahl has performed with the Atlanta, Utah and Phoenix Symphony Orchestras, the Arizona Opera Company and the Sunflower Music Festival Chamber Orchestra. She is principal oboe of the Gwinnett Ballet Orchestra and the newly-founded Elysium Chamber Orchestra, is a founding member of Georgia Chamber Winds, and performs with Chamber Music Atlanta.

Dahl currently substitutes with the Atlanta Opera Orchestra, Columbus Symphony, Cobb Symphony and Macon Symphony and is an active freelance musician throughout Atlanta. In addition, Dahl is in demand in the metro-Atlanta area as an adjudicator, master-class clinician and sectional coach.

In 2008, Dahl was a featured soloist with the Bach Festival in Rome, GA, and the Georgia State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and was a guest master-class clinician at [http:// www.washburn.edu/ Washburn University] in Topeka, Kansas and Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. She also performed at the 2008 International Double Reed Society Conference.