Liz Spector has been the English horn and associate principal oboe of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra since October 2006. She has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, CityMusic Cleveland, the Rochester City Ballet, the Rochester Chamber Orchestra, Mercury Opera, and the Imani Winds. Liz has participated in summer festivals such as the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, Music in the Mountains in Durango, Colorado, and the International Festival‐Institute at Roundtop, Texas. During the summer of 2008, she attended master classes at the Banff Center of the Arts as well as the orchestral program at the Lucerne Academy in Switzerland.

Liz is the oboist in the Arabesque Winds, recent grand-prize winners of the 2009 Coleman Chamber Music Competition’s Coleman‐Saunderson Prize, the Harvard Musical Association’s Arthur Foote Prize, and the 2008 International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition. They also won second place in the Henri Tomasi International Woodwind Quintet Competition in Marseilles, France. Arabesque has performed in the Kennedy Center and Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall.

Liz is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Richard Killmer. She graduated with honors and a Performer’s Certificate. During her time at Eastman, she performed the United States premiere of Rolf Rudin’s “Am Ende des Tages” for solo English horn and Wind Ensemble. Liz is currently the oboe teacher at SUNY Geneseo and has a private studio in Rochester, NY.