Andrea Gullickson
Oboe
Comments about recent performances:
"Oboist Andrea Gullickson and pianist Karen Enns
recently played a recital in our intimate art
gallery Music On Sunday series.
The well-planned program provided a captivating flow,
and Andrea's soulful and lyrical playing melded
exquisitely with Karen's profound chamber music
sensitivity to create a sublimely interwoven duo
concert that left our audience in ecstasy.
We all eagerly look forward to a repeat engagement."
Ron Hadley
Music on Sunday
The Old School House Arts Centre
Qualicum Beach, British Columbia
"...a commanding player...she makes a big colorful sound that she uses to create clear-headed decisive statements."
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Her playing was persuasive, full of imagination and expressive personality."
Elaine Douvas
Metropolitan Opera, Principal Oboe
Faculty Member, The Julliard School
"...a beautiful sense of line and shape."
Journal of the International Double Reed Society
"She played with consistently beautiful tone, fine intonation, and a real soloist's flair. The technical demands of the recital were daunting - especially in the new piece that had been written for her - but she fulfilled them brilliantly."
Ronald Roseman
Oboist, New York Woodwind Quintet and Bach Aria Group
Professor, Yale School of Music
Faculty Member, The Juilliard School
"Schumann's Three Pieces is of course a bona fide standard, absolutely top of the heap for any oboist... Gullickson's ranks right up there with the best."
American Record Guide
"Her oboe playing...is some of the finest I have heard. Her tone is pure, focused and unforced - perfectly natural sounding and effortless."
Fanfare
"The program is well thought out… and played elegantly."
The Delian
"Andrea Gullickson’s brilliant oboe sound sparkles."
The Instrumentalist
"a nice mixture of relaxed sophistication and urban chic…Gullickson combines a lovely tone in the sinuous French manner with a sturdy sense of poetry…"
Gramophone
"Andrea Gullickson’s oboe performance was outstanding. Her ability to make her instrument sing with the sweetest tone was awesome. It was at times brilliant and at times subtle. Seldom have I ever heard the oboe sound as full and pleasant."
Father Michael Hartney
Concert Series of the Episcopal Parishes of Schuyler County
Watkins Glen, New York
"Her performance artistry is of the highest quality. She plays with a beautiful sound, excellent technique and superb musicianship...she played flawlessly."
Henry B. Pensis
Music Director
The Oshkosh Symphony Orchestra