Principal Librarian
Oboe
Mia Fasanello
About
Praised for her “deeply moving” playing in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie by the Hamburger Abendblatt, oboist Mia Fasanello is a Boston-based musician performing on oboe, English horn, and oboe d’amore across orchestral, chamber, solo, and opera repertoire.
She appears frequently with Emmanuel Music and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, and has also performed with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Cantata Singers, New England Philharmonic, and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, where she was engaged for multiple summer seasons and productions of The Nutcracker at Shea’s Buffalo Theatre.
Recent highlights include a sold-out performance at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie with Enigma Classica under Anna Handler and tenor Jonathan Tetelman, performing as part of an 18-player chamber orchestra, and a sold-out Carnegie Hall appearance with the Kazakh State Symphony Orchestra alongside conductor Andreas Delfs and guest artists from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Baltimore Symphony. She is Principal Oboe of the Boston Civic Symphony and serves as oboist, Director of Operations, and Music Librarian for Apollo Ensemble of Boston.
Mia was a fellow at the Emmanuel Music Bach Institute and the Chautauqua Institution School of Music Festival Orchestra.
As a soloist, she has performed the Mozart Oboe Concerto with the Genesee Symphony Orchestra and the Vaughan Williams Oboe Concerto with the Greater Buffalo Youth Orchestra. She also appeared as solo oboist in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major on a European tour culminating in a sold-out performance at Prague’s Dvořák Hall.
Mia holds a Bachelor’s degree from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Elaine Douvas, and a Master’s degree from Boston University, studying with Mark McEwen.
APOLLO ENSEMBLE OF BOSTON 