Welcome to Oboe Brilliance:
creating custom compositions and coaching
around the clock
for oboists, their students,
and classically trained musicians,
around the world.
Purchase, study, perform and explore,
oboe solo, oboe ensemble, oboe in ensemble music available
and/or commission more!

COMPOSITION

Above, oboist Marika LOMBARDI and pianist Natalie DANG in live performance on March 8, 2020 in Paris, France in celebration of international women’s day.
Pas de Deux #1, by Kathryn J. POTTER

SHOP the selection of 16 published works.

COACHING available for teachers, performers, and students, eager to embrace the rare opportunity to study the music of a composer, with the composer. By appointment.

Visit MUSE ECHO to read blogs and to hear select recordings of Oboe Brilliance work by professionals and/or K.J.P. .


VISIT OFTEN, to ENJOY the new 2024 blog series (starting March 7) focusing on the in depth creative process for 2024 compositions, painting, philosophy and writing.

PAINTING

Art lovers are invited to commission and purchase original gouache on canvas board paintings by Founder Kathryn J. Potter. All proceeds support furthering the creative work of the innovative 8 books of Oboe Brilliance Pedagogy, designed for the oboists of tomorrow…in progress.

COMMISSION

COMMISSION Founder Kathryn J. Potter, independent woman composer, with an oboe specialty, to compose custom work, for oboe solo and up to and including any or all instruments honored in the Western classical orchestra, including voice(s). All terms negotiable and with a mutually agreed upon and signed contract.

NEW RELEASES

“Kathryn Potter's works are 'great music' because through them she invites the performer to experiment musically and to find ever new levels of artistic bliss. At an age when so much music is being created, and so much of it matters little whether we play it softer, louder, move it or feel it, Potter's music reminds us of the important balance between creation and performance, arguably because she is both a composer and an oboist. What I look for in great music is the ability to respect and learn from the point of view of a composer, yet interact with that music in an honest matter, bringing in my own feelings to the discourse. I feel I can do that with Potter's music, and learn more from it every time I open the score" - Alex Klein, 2021

Oboe Brilliance NEWS

2024 offerings include:
a new blog series MUSE ECHO
a first subscription series (visit painting)
new commission menu COMMISSION
new coaching options COACHING

ABOUT

MISSION: To compose, and teach, an original, comprehensive 21st century pedagogy and repertoire, for the oboists of today and tomorrow, with equal emphasis on technical and imaginative enrichment for all levels of oboe playing.

VISION: To establish an international school of Oboe Brilliance by or before 2030, cultivating the art of composing for, teaching, and playing the oboe for generations forward using the original methods and music of Oboe Brilliance.

PURPOSE: To perpetually increase the level of joy and compassionate love consciousness through devoted artistry: creation, study, teaching and performance including life long oboe, double reed and wind playing.

FOUNDED: Oboe Brilliance was founded November 4, 2010 in Asheville N.C., by composer and music teacher, with an oboe specialty, Kathryn J. Potter, when K.J.P. self published 3 books of music she’d composed for her oboe students*;
IN ADORATION OF THE EARTH, 12 progressive études for solo oboe, (SHOP)
THE SECRETS OF RAVENS, 7 intermediate duets for oboe,
FLYING WITH RAVENS INTO THE NIGHT, quartet for 4 oboes.

*of K.J.Potter’s Music studio, which provided individualized oboe, flute, piano and composition lessons to children adults and seniors from 1992 - 2010 in Asheville, N.C..

FOUNDER: Kathryn J. POTTER, b.1965 N.Y., passionate oboist and student from 1974 - 2021, oboe teacher from 1992 - 2023, published composer since 2010. Internationally published, studied and performed composer and educator, with an oboe specialty, since 2012.

EDUCATION of Founder: Started with a childhood intensive arts education, of ballet (10 years),private piano lessons, church and school choirs, theatrical performances and consistent instrumental ensemble involvement, along with
her private oboe/composition lessons w/ noted teachers:
James CASSARA, (L.I., N.Y.), Peter HERTLING (L.I.,N.Y.)
on scholarship:
Lois WANN (N.Y.C., N.Y.) “Kathy can make a heart of stone weep.”
Peter Hedrick (I.C., Ithaca N.Y.)
Michael WINFIELD (Surrey, England) “What angel brings the sound of heaven to earth? Why it’s Miss POTTER with her oboe!”
Marc LIFSCHEY (S.F.C. of M., CA) “Her mental focus and emotional intensity astound me.”
her private composition teachers, on scholarship, include:
Karel HUSA (I.C., Ithaca N.Y.) “K.J. is a powerfully creative feminine force as a composer and performer.”
(Karel and K.J. focused studying the music of Béla Bartok and also the philosophy of inspiration, integrity and purpose.)
Eleanor ARMER (S.F.C. of M, CA) “K.J. is both a deeply expressive performer and talented composer.”
(Ms. Armer, student of Darius Milhaud, imparted his philosophy, and the culinary metaphors applied to composition to Kathryn J. which she deliberately incorporates into her compositions, thus keeping a lineage.)


K.J.P. is an ALUMNA of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she majored in oboe performance and composition on merit scholarship, after transferring from beginning her higher education at Ithaca College N.Y., and London England.

RECOGNITION and HONORS:

Music of Kathryn J. POTTER is incorporated as curriculum by students of Marika LOMBARDI at the Lili et Nadia Boulanger Conservatoire de Paris, France, as well as other fine schools around the world.

Association Français du HAUTBOIS endorses the solo oboe book “Illuminations”.

Federation Musicale de FRANÇAIS, listed selections of the book “Arc en Ciel” for repertoire éts d’enseignment musical, 2022.

The ANEMOS WW5tet, commissioned “Songes d’un Cœur Épris” WW5TET, for the Midieval Festival in Europe of 2013.

Kathryn POTTER., since 2012, is a repeated guest teacher, composer, coach and performer with the annual OBOEPARIS Festival in Paris, France and a repeated composer celebrating international women’s day in Paris,
at the American Church in 2020, at the Italian Embassy of Paris in 2015. MUSE ECHO

Awarded an Asheville downtown HERO, N.C. in 1995, for being the Director of two performing arts series; Early Music to the Avant Garde, and The performing arts series, at the Green Door, in Asheville, where she brought together various ages, skill levels, and performance genres, for artistic and local community cultural enrichment.

Awarded the Bayport/Bluepoint, Stacey Luff memorial award, for her caring nature and zest for life.

Awarded the Islip Township of N.Y., “Outstanding Achievement in the Performing Arts” .

Founding Philosophy: “I believe the ultimate purpose of art, as well as humanity, is to increase love consciousness.” K.J.P.