A Buffalo, NY native and current Nebraskan, Lisa Meyerhofer holds positions as Third Flute & Piccolo of the Omaha Symphony and Principal Flute of the Des Moines Symphony. This season she will be featured as the soloist in Lowell Liebermann’s Piccolo Concerto along with the Omaha Symphony. She has also served as Acting Assistant Principal Flute with the Omaha Symphony, Second Flute/Piccolo with the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, and has played with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Tulsa Symphony, Lexington Philharmonic, Canton Symphony, and Southern Tier Symphony. Lisa was an award winner in the 2017 Walfrid Kujala International Piccolo Competition, and has twice been a quarterfinalist in the National Flute Association Young Artist Competition. She received her BM from Ithaca College and MM from Northwestern University. When not traveling to her next performance (and sometimes even in the midst of traveling), Lisa maintains her own flute studio and also tutors math and science. She enjoys reading, gardening, baking, making paper beads and jewelry, sewing, and photography, and marks this summer as her 10th year with Opera in the Ozarks.
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Orlando Scalia is one of the few select Argentines living in Omaha, NE. He is a fixture in the musical life of Northwest Arkansas, having held the Bass Clarinet position in SoNA for the better part of a decade. Orlando has been recently appointed Associate Principal Clarinet of the South Dakota Symphony and regularly performs with the Omaha and Wichita Symphonies, as well as Opera Naples, Boca Symphonia, and Orchestra Miami. His playing will be heard in the upcoming Fort Smith Symphony recording of the music of Louis Ballard. He holds degrees from the Universities of Miami and Cincinnati. This summer marked his tenth appearance as Principal Clarinetist for Opera In The Ozarks.
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Austin Smith is currently the oboe instructor at the University of Mississippi where he directs the oboe studio, teaches oboe methods, coaches chamber music, and plays with the faculty woodwind quintet. As an orchestral musician, Austin is currently principal oboe with the North Mississippi Symphony Orchestra and Queen City Opera (Cincinnati). He was previously second oboe and English Horn with the Muncie Symphony Orchestra for five seasons and has played with orchestras across the country including the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Lexington Philharmonic, and many others. This is Austin’s third season as principal oboe of Opera in the Ozarks (coming back from a six-year hiatus after his first two seasons!). Austin also plays with the Maryland Chamber Winds, a chamber music collective based in West Maryland and can be heard on their most recent CD “Preludes and Recitations”. Besides teaching and playing oboe, Austin is an avid road cyclist (a quarantine hobby that stuck!) and enjoys spending time with his semi-fat cat, Shuri.
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Dr. Andrea C. Baker currently serves as the Assistant Professor of Bassoon at Western Illinois University where she is also the bassoonist of the long-standing Camerata Wind Quintet. She also holds the positions of principal bassoon with Opera in the Ozarks and second bassoon with the Richmond Symphony in Indiana.
Previously, she was the instructor of Double Reeds at Georgia Southern University and held the positions of assistant principal/second bassoon with the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra in Bosnia and Herzegovina and second bassoon with the New England Philharmonic. Recent orchestral performances include the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Alabama Symphony, and Chattanooga Symphony. As a soloist, she was the 2021 winner of the University of Cincinnati wind concerto competition, and the 2017 winner of the Boston Woodwind Society Sherman Walt Merit solo competition.
An avid chamber musician, Dr. Baker is the bassoonist for Some Light Reeding and Panoply Winds: an international touring wind quintet committed to sharing culture through music. Panoply was a guest ensemble in residence at the 2019 Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival in South Africa. In collaboration with clarinetist Bryce Newcomer, Some Light Reeding aims to improve accessibility and equity among developing woodwind students.
She earned her DMA from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and her Master of Music degree from New England Conservatory. She also holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Penn State University, and her principal teachers and mentors include William Winstead, Martin Garcia, Christopher Sales, Richard Svoboda, Daryl Durran, and Shirley Curtiss.
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