Corinne Foley

Oboist Corinne Foley was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 2002. In May 2026, she will finish her master’s degree at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, where she studies with Linda Strommen and is a recipient of the John Mack Memorial Scholarship in Oboe.

In 2012, Corinne began her study of the oboe, attracted by the instrument’s piercing sound and by the glorious orchestral solos written for it. In 2014, she entered the National Symphony Orchestra Youth Fellowship Program, a scholarship program where middle and high school students study with NSO musicians, perform chamber music at the Kennedy Center, and play in side-by-side rehearsals with the NSO. There, Corinne studied with Jamie Roberts (of the National Symphony Orchestra), and in 2020, she was awarded the H. Stevens Brewster Memorial Scholarship for outstanding achievement in the program.

In 2024, Corinne earned a bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied oboe with John Ferrillo (of the Boston Symphony Orchestra) and Anne Marie Gabriele (of the Los Angeles Philharmonic) and was a recipient of the Laura Ahlbeck Memorial Scholarship. At NEC, Corinne’s wind quintet, Category Five Winds, coached by Eli Epstein, won a position as an Honors Ensemble. This involved giving a recital in Jordan Hall and several performances in local schools, community centers, and retirement homes. The quintet worked with the composer Valerie Coleman on a performance of her piece Tzigane in Jordan Hall for the NEC Composers’ Series. Corinne also played in many premieres of new works at NEC for the Tuesday Night New Music concert series and for Chirp: an Electronic Music Festival.

Recently, Corinne has performed with the Indiana University Conductors’ Orchestra and the Indiana University Faculty Chamber Ensemble. In the spring of 2026, she won the IU Woodwind Concerto Competition and in April will perform as a soloist with the IU Concert Orchestra in Jasmine Barnes’s Kinsfolknem, a concerto for woodwind quartet and orchestra.

In previous summers, she has held principal oboe positions at the Orchestre de la Francophonie, Kent Blossom Music Festival, and the National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute, and she has been a member of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Orchestra.