Nicholas Tisherman, oboe

Equal parts performer, educator, and advocate for the arts, oboist Nicholas Tisherman serves as Second and Assistant Principal Oboe of the Colorado Symphony. He performs regularly as a guest with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and has performed with the San Antonio Symphony, Sarasota Orchestra, and Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has performed chamber recitals around the state and was featured as a soloist at the Breckenridge International Festival of the Arts performing Bach’s Concerto for Oboe and Violin alongside acclaimed violinist Aisslinn Nosky. He has appeared at the Verbier, Tanglewood, and Brevard summer music festivals, and served as principal oboe during the Orchestra of the Americas’ first European tour in summer 2016.

Nicholas has taught master classes at the University of Wyoming, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Northern Colorado, and University of Minnesota. He enjoys working with his private studio and with the Denver Young Artists Orchestra as a woodwind sectional coach and adjudicator. His first commission, a solo oboe work by Boston-based composer Lavell Blackwell, found its live premiere in recital at the 2022 International Double Reed Society Conference in Boulder.

A graduate of Juilliard’s Pre-College Division, Nicholas earned his Bachelor of Music from the New England Conservatory, and pursued further studies at the Colburn School in Los Angeles. His principal mentors have been Richard Dallessio, John Ferrillo, Linda Strommen, and Anne Marie Gabriele.