Meet our Musicians, Michael Helgerman, Oboe
Come see Michael and the rest of the MSO’s Woodwind Quintet perform on Sunday, October 15th at the Academy Arts Museum in Easton, Maryland and Saturday, October 21st at Epworth United Methodist Church in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
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Michael Helgerman is a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he studies oboe performance with Mark Hill. He holds a Master’s degree in Oboe Performance & Literature from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he studied with John Dee, and a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from the University of Maryland, College Park. Michael has enjoyed multiple performances as a soloist and prize winner. At the 2018 Delaware Master Players Festival, he won first prize in both the solo competition and concerto competition. He also won second prize at the 2019 Miami (OH) Lorée Oboe Day solo competition. Michael has also performed professionally with the Apollo Orchestra, the Danville Symphony Orchestra, and the Sinfonia da Camera (Urbana, IL). He currently teaches wind ensemble, symphonic band, concert band, class piano, and music technology at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, MD.