Elizabeth Koch Tiscione

Biography

Elizabeth Koch Tiscione joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at the beginning of the 2007-2008 season as principal oboe. In addition to her responsibilities with the ASO, Ms. Tiscione plays Principal Oboe at the Grand Teton Music Festival, Strings Festival, Festival Mozaic and is a member of the Atlanta Chamber Players. She has performed as guest principal oboe with the orchestras of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, St. Louis, Detroit, KBS, Baltimore, Rochester, Buffalo, Jacksonville and the Orpheus and St. Paul Chamber Orchestras. She has been featured on NPR's "From the Top," has also performed at many chamber music festivals throughout the country and as a soloist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.  Her teachers include, Marc Dubois, Daniel Stolper, Richard Woodhams and Robert Walters.

Elizabeth is from Hamburg New York and started playing the oboe in the public school system, she went on to study at the Interlochen Arts Academy  in Interlochen, Michigan and the Curtis Institute of Music, in Philadelphia.

Elizabeth has taught at some of the most prestigious institutions in the country including the Curtis Institute, Colorado College Summer Music Festival and the Aspen Music Festival.  She is on faculty at Kennesaw State University and maintains a private oboe studio out of her home.  Elizabeth is married to another member of the Atlanta Symphony, trumpeter Michael Tiscione and they have a son, Elio.  In Elizabeth’s free time she loves to cook, travel and practice yoga.