Nathan Hughes

Nathan Hughes is Principal Oboe of the Metropolitan Opera and a member of the oboe faculty at The Juilliard School.

He previously served as Principal Oboe of the Seattle Symphony and Associate Principal Oboe of the San Francisco Symphony.

Hughes holds the distinction of having made guest appearances as Principal Oboe with a great number of leading American orchestras, including the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, as well as the Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras.

He also has appeared at numerous music festivals around the world, including Aspen, Lucerne, Marlboro, Salzburg, Tanglewood, and Verbier.