Alison Gangler

Alison

Gangler

Renaissance reeds Oboe
After completing a Bachelor of Arts degree at Mount Holyoke College, Alison Gangler continued her studies of music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland, concentrating on shawms, baroque and classical oboe and historical performance practice under Michel Piguet. She has performed and recorded with chamber orchestras and chamber music ensembles, touring throughout Europe, South Asia, Australia, and South America, including groups such as Musica Antiqua Köln, Concerto Köln, Accademia Bizantina (Ravenna, Italy), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Akademie für alte Musik Berlin, Concentus Musicus (Vienna), Anima Eterna (Brugge), and Stuttgart Baroque Orchestra. While living in Italy, she also performed and recorded Medieval and Renaissance music with Ensemble Dramsam (Gorizia-Udine) and Sarband (Munich), playing shawms, recorders and dulcian. Since returning to live in the U.S. in 2000, she has concentrated on a side career as a software engineer. She lives in southern New Hampshire and comes to the Boston area to play with Newton Baroque and has performed with Boston Baroque, Oriana Consort, Boston Cecilia, and the Harvard University Baroque Orchestra.