About

Currently based in Moscow, ID, oboist and music educator Dr. Camilla Yoder is the visiting Lecturer of Oboe at the University of Idaho’s Lionel Hampton School of Music for the 2024-2025 school year. She completed her Doctoral of Musical Arts degree at the University of Kentucky, where she was the teaching assistant to Dr. ToniMarie Marchioni’s oboe studio. Her dissertation work focused on improving double-tonguing pedagogy through the inclusion of Body Mapping and kinesthetic awareness exercises. In Spring 2024, she performed the Martinu Oboe Concerto as a University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition Winner.

A native of Lancaster, PA, and well-known in Lexington, KY, she is an established performer in those regions. She is a frequent guest musician with professional orchestras, such as the Lexington Philharmonic, Harrisburg Symphony, Allentown Symphony, Berks Sinfonietta, and the Pennsylvania Philharmonic.

She has taught oboe and music theory to students of various levels through Temple University’s Community Music School Program, The Dream School based in Ambler, PA, and privately in both online and in-person settings. She has experience and enjoys aiding absolute beginning oboists, more advanced, aspiring young professionals, and anyone in between. 

Throughout the beginning of the pandemic, she was able to spread knowledge and joy about music as the program note curator and living composer interviewer for the Berks Sinfonietta Chamber Orchestra – check out some of her videos on the media page of this website or through the Berks Sinfonietta YouTube or Facebook page.

She has participated in various summer festivals including the Texas Music Festival, Decoda Skidmore Chamber Music Institute, the National Orchestra Institute and Festival, Endless Mountain Music Festival, Chautauqua Music Festival, the Atlantic Music Festival, and the National Music Festival.

Her previous alma maters include Temple University’s Boyer College of Music (MM) and Baldwin Wallace University’s Conservatory of Music (BM). Her teachers include Kathy Horein, Jeff O’Donnell, Jeff Rathbun, Jonathan Blumenfeld, and Dr. ToniMarie Marchioni. When not making reeds, practicing, or teaching, she can be found petting cats, doing yoga, starting her next knitting project, and exploring the outdoors.