Dr. Euridice Alvarez, Assistant Professor of Oboe, is principal oboist with the Waco Symphony and performs with the Baylor Woodwind Quintet. As a performer and teacher, she has toured Panama, Honduras, Costa Rica and Thailand. Her oboe studies began at the Victoriano López School of Music in her native Honduras with José Ángel Ábrego, and continued at the University of Southern Mississippi (BM), Baylor University (MM) and The Eastman School of Music (DMA). Her primary teachers are Patricia Malone, Doris DeLoach, Geoffrey Burgess and Richard Killmer. Recent symphonic performances have been in Colorado with the Boulder Bach Festival, Boulder Philharmonic, Fort Collins Symphony and Greeley Philharmonic and in Washington, D.C. with the Avanti Symphony. As soloist, notable performances have been with the Saint Malo Festival Orchestra in Panama, the Masterworks Festival Avanti Orchestra in Washington, D.C. and The Nazareth College Symphony in The Bahamas. She has performed and/or presented master classes in Panama, Honduras, Costa Rica, Thailand, Florida, Connecticut, Georgia, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, New Mexico and Texas. She formerly served on the faculty of the University of Southern Mississippi and the University of Northern Colorado.

Bassoonist Dr. Jacqueline Wilson is an active performer, pedagogue, collaborator, and advocate. She currently serves as Principal Bassoonist of the Washington Idaho Symphony and Assistant Professor of Bassoon and Theory at Washington State University where she performs with the Solstice Faculty Wind Quintet. As an active soloist and chamber musician, she regularly presents recitals, masterclasses, and clinics including engagements at the International Double Reed Society Conference (Boulder, CO, Tampa, FL, Columbus, GA,), the International Alliance for Women in Music Conference (Corvallis, OR), the Meg Quigley Bassoon Symposium (Los Angeles, CA), the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the LunART Festival (Madison, WI). She is a founding member of Ensemble 337, an innovative bassoon and marimba duo with percussionist Dr. Christopher Wilson. An eager contributor to the double reed community, Dr. Wilson currently serves as a Co-Executive Director of the Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition and Bassoon Symposium, Grants Coordinator for the International Double Reed Society, and co-hosts the Double Reed Dish podcast with oboist Dr. Galit Kaunitz.

As an avid supporter of new music, Dr. Wilson frequently collaborates with composers on the creation of new works to expand the repertoire of the bassoon. She is especially passionate about embracing diversity in her performances by elevating music featuring underrepresented perspectives and lived experiences, with a special focus on collaborating with Indigenous composers. In this capacity, she has premiered and commissioned works by composers Juantio Becenti, Connor Chee, Raven Chacon, and others. She also actively creates resources that facilitate the performance of works from the 20th century and beyond. Her article, “Strategies for Learning Luciano Berio’s Sequenza XII,” co-authored with Dr. Christin Schillinger (Ithaca College), has been published in The Double Reed and the Journal de L’Association Bassons (France). Similarly, her dissertation, an analysis and performance guide of Sofia Gubaidulina’s Concerto for Bassoon and Low Strings, has been utilized by noteworthy bassoonists worldwide.

Dr. Wilson holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Bassoon Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Iowa. She is also a graduate of Boston University’s College of Fine Arts and Eastern Washington University. Her principal teachers include Benjamin Coelho, Matthew Ruggiero, and Lynne Feller-Marshall.

Theresa Delaplain is an esteemed oboist and pedagogue.  She has performed as soloist with the Fort Smith Symphony, the North Arkansas Symphony, the Arkansas Philharmonic, the Thai National Orchestra, and the University of Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Wind Symphony, and Chamber Orchestra. Dr. Delaplain is an avid chamber musician, and she is oboist with the Lyrique Quintette. She currently serves as Principal Oboist for the Fort Smith Symphony, the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, the Arkansas Philharmonic. Dr. Delaplain plays on Lorée oboes and is a Lorée Artist.

As a performer, Dr. Delaplain performs and/or tours regularly as a solo recitalist and chamber musician. She is on the Arkansas Arts Council’s Arts on Tour roster as oboist with the Lyrique Quintette. The quintet has toured Spain, Germany, Thailand, Canada, and throughout the United States, giving formal concerts, school concerts, master classes, clinics, and workshops.  The quintet has recently released its Arrivals and Departures: Music of the Americas album on the Mark Classic label, and has also produced a CD entitled Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue. Dr. Delaplain has appeared at many International Double Reed Society Conventions, and she was a guest recitalist at the Southwest Contemporary Music Festival and Conference, in addition to performing at the College Music Society National and Regional Conventions. She has commissioned and premiered several new works involving oboe, and she has taught at the Interlochen Center for the Arts Summer Arts Camp, the Midwest Double Reed Camp, and the Saarburg International Music Festival and School in Germany. She has been active as a clinician and adjudicator, including appearances at the Mid-South Double Reed  Society Convention, Valdosta State University Double Reed Day, East Carolina Oboe Day, and the Arkansas All-State Music Convention.

She has also written a popular oboe reed-making book, My Kingdom for a Reed!, and is the co-host of Something to Crow About!, a YouTube channel devoted to oboe reed-making.

Dr. Delaplain’s album of music for oboe and piano, Souvenirs (MSR Classics), was described in Fanfare as “…a fascinating mix of repertoire, performed to the highest of standards. This is a fabulously thought-out excursion into the oboe repertoire, beautifully recorded.”

Dr. Delaplain teaches oboe and music theory at the University of Arkansas. Her formal education included attending Macalester College for two years, where she studied with Rachel Brudnoy and Richard Killmer; earning a Bachelor of Music in Oboe Performance degree from the University of Michigan, where she studied with Arno Mariotti; earning a Master of Music in Oboe Performance from Bowling Green State University, where she studied with John Bentley; and earning a Doctor of Musical Arts in Oboe Performance from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, where she studied with Sara Bloom and had master classes with Robert Bloom.

Lia Uribe is associate chair and associate professor of music at the University of Arkansas department of music, and principal bassoonist of the Symphony Orchestra of Northwest Arkansas and Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra. Dr. Uribe maintains an active career as a chamber musician, orchestral player, and artist-teacher. She has performed and taught in venues and festivals in Colombia, Spain, Bolivia, Canada, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Finland, Argentina, Germany, Guatemala, Ecuador, Greece, Venezuela, Japan, Peru, England, Thailand, and the United States, including solo and chamber recitals recitals at several International Double Reed Society conferences, organization in which she also has served as part of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion sub-committee. Lia performs and tours on regular basis with the Lyrique Quintette, woodwind quintet in residence at the University of Arkansas. With them, she published in 2018 the album “Arrivals and Departures: Music of the Americas”. Her research is centered in Latin-American, Latinx, and historically marginalized and underrepresented music and composers. As an advocate for new works, Lia Uribe has premiered and commissioned numerous works for the bassoon.

Besides her music making, Dr. Uribe is passionate about inclusiveness, representation, and diversity in the arts. In 2017 she was a fellow for the NALAC (National Association of Latino Arts a Cultures) Leadership Institute, a week-long rigorous program in arts management and leadership development that delivers innovative and practical strategies that lead to successful business practices in the arts. She was also selected to participate in the 9th Annual NALAC Advocacy Leadership Institute in 2019, a 2-month virtual preparatory curriculum which culminated in a 3-day intensive training in Washington D.C., focused on building arts advocacy skills and arts policy shaping on the national and international stage. In January of 2019 she was invited to join the biennial Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition and Symposium for young women bassoonists from the Americas as a panelist, speaking of her work and its impact on people and communities; recently she became part of the MQVC team, where she furthers diversity initiatives and connections with Latin-America.

Dr. Uribe’s work with the community connects her endeavors as a scholar with that of artists and art leaders in her surroundings. Since 2018 Dr. Uribe has worked as a facilitator for Artist INC, a Mid-America Arts Alliance professional development program for artists. Since 2018 she is a member of the Walton Arts Center Board of Directors where she co-chairs the DEIB board committee. In 2022 she joined the Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange (CACHE) inaugural board of directors. CACHE, formed in 2019, acts as the central regional agency committed to connecting, supporting, and developing Northwest Arkansas’ arts and culture communities, including individual artists, non-profits, creative industries, municipalities, and philanthropies.

Lia writes and hosts Sound Perimeter for KUAF 91.3, a weekly segment dedicated to diverse voices in and around music that airs on Thursdays during Ozarks at Large. Her most recent team project, RefleXions Music Series, is funded by the University of Arkansas Chancellor’s Grant for the Humanities and Performing Arts Initiative, and sponsored by the J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences, the Department of Music, and KUAF 91.3. RefleXions is conceived as a celebration of music, musicians, advocates, and audiences, as a series of events that foster creative justice and diversity through opportunities to reflect, learn, grow, change, and teach.

Originally from Cali, Colombia, Lia Uribe earned a bachelor’s degree in bassoon performance from Conservatorio de Música de la Facultad de Artes, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, followed by an artist residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada. Dr. Uribe also holds a Masters of Music from the University of Arkansas and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Kansas. In 2021, Lia earned a certificate on Equity and Inclusion in the Wrokplace from Cornell University, and in 2022, an Executive Graduate Certificate in Social Entrepreneurship, Cultural Agency, Arts Innovation, Community Development, Business Management, Design Thinking, and Education Leadership from the Global Leaders Program. Presently she is working on an MBA in Arts Entrepreneurship through the Global Leaders Program curated and certified by Harvard, Duke, Georgetown, McGill, NYU, and Bard College.