The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra has announced that Principal Oboe ALLAN VOGEL will retire at the end of this season. Appointed to the orchestra in 1972, and named to the principal oboe post in 1974, Vogel has soloed with LACO fourteen times during his 44-year tenure. He has also served as guest principal oboe with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and has appeared with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Berlin and Los Angeles philharmonics, and the Marlboro, Santa Fe, Aspen, and Mostly Mozart festivals. He is on the faculty of California Institute of the Arts, the University of Southern California, and the Colburn School Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. 

Posted March 15, 2016