Fatma Daglar

Fatma Daglar is the principal oboist of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Maryland Symphony Orchestra She also held the position of Acting Assistant Principal/Second Oboe with the Louisville Orchestra during their 2003 - 04 season. She works actively as a freelance musician; she has performed on oboe and English horn with such groups as the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, National Chamber Orchestra, Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Concert Artists of Baltimore, Washington Concert Opera Orchestra, Baltimore Opera Orchestra, Post-Classical Ensemble, The Melos Ensemble, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Lancaster, Alexandria and Fairfax Symphony Orchestras. She has performed Richard Strauss' Oboe Concerto and Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra, and Mozart's Oboe Concerto in C Major with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, and Nicholas Maw's Oboe Concerto with the Peabody Camerata. During her studies and her professional career, Ms. Daglar has been the recipient of Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Orchestral Scholarship, the Fannie Mae Foundation Sponsorship and numerous Career Development Grants from the Peabody Institute. She has toured Japan with the Eastwinds Quintet in 1995; she has also participated in a tour of the United States with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra in 1997.

Fatma Daglar is an enthusiastic performer of early music: she has been playing the baroque oboe since she first attended Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute as a scholarship student. She has performed with the AmaDeus Ensemble, Brandywine Baroque, Modern Musick, Opera Vivente, and recently appeared and recorded with the Bach Sinfonia.

By music critics of the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, and the Annapolis Capital, her playing has been described as such: "a dexterous technician with attractive tone and a nifty sense of phrasing", "a concerto performance of virtuoso caliber, enthusiastically received", "touching, bittersweet tone", "terrific", "well-rounded tone with a beautiful vibrato", "extraordinary playing". She has been featured on WETA, WBJC, and Voice of America Radio.

Fatma Daglar attended the Robert College High School of Istanbul and the Istanbul Conservatory of Music, where she received her Bachelor's Degree in Music. She also holds a Master's Degree and a Graduate Performance Diploma in Oboe Performance from the Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with Sara Watkins. She has taught at Georgetown University, Goucher College, Anne Arundel Community College, and is currently a faculty member at the Peabody Preparatory and St. Mary's College of Maryland.