Kathryn Montoya

Kathryn appears with a variety of orchestral and chamber music ensembles including the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Tafelmusik, and Apollo’s Fire among others. She received her degrees at Oberlin Conservatory and Indiana University School of Music, Bloomington. While at IU she was the recipient of the prestigious Performer’s Certificate and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Germany. 

Kathryn currently teaches baroque oboe and recorder at Oberlin Conservatory, Longy School of Music, and the University of North Texas. She has been on the faculty for Longy’s International Baroque Institute, the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin, the SFEMS Baroque Workshop, and given masterclasses in the US and China.

Ms. Montoya enjoys a varied musical life performing for the Grammy award-winning recording of Charpentier’s La Couronne de Fleurs with the Boston Early Music Festival, the Globe’s Tony award-winning production of Twelfth Night on Broadway, and occasionally touring as a tin-whistle player.

Recent projects include a Graupner opera with the Boston Early Music Festival for Musikfest Bremen and concerts with the LA Philharmonic. In her free time she can be found in Hereford, England converting an eighteenth century barn into a home with her husband, James.