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          A student of Elaine Douvas and John Mack, Mr. Gaudi received both his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School.

        1. A student of Elaine Douvas and John Mack, Mr. Gaudi received both his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School.
        2. When I first got here I was 26 years old, he was 60 and long in his prime as the premiere oboe player in the world.
        3. A renowned teacher, Mack was chairman of the woodwind division at the Cleveland Institute of Music since Many of his former students hold positions with.
        4. Born in Saskatoon, Canada, Bede Hanley began learning the oboe at nine, eventually going on to earn his Bachelor of Music degree from the Cleveland.
        5. The assumption is also made that students of Tabuteau such as John Mack and John de.

          6. A renowned teacher, Mack was chairman of the woodwind division at the Cleveland Institute of Music since Many of his former students hold positions with....

          John Mack (musician)

          American oboist

          John Mack (October 30, 1927 – July 23, 2006) was an American oboist.

          Biography

          Born in Somerville, New Jersey, Mack attended the Juilliard School of Music, studying oboe with Harold Gomberg and Bruno Labate and then at the Curtis Institute of Music with Marcel Tabuteau, the longtime principal oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

          His first professional experience was with the Sadler Wells Ballet's American tour in 1951–1952.

          The first was an invitation to my then-husband, Patrick McFarland, by Joe Robinson to be the resident repairman at the very first John Mack Oboe Camp.

          Afterwards he was appointed principal oboist of the New Orleans Symphony, taught briefly at Louisiana State University, and then played with the National Symphony Orchestra from 1963 to 1965. He was also principal oboist at the Casals Festivals in Prades and Perpignan, France.

          Mack was appointed by George Szell as principal oboist of the Cleveland Orchestra in 1965, succeeding Marc Lifschey, and remained there playing under Szell and his successors Lorin Maazel and Christoph von Dohnanyi until 2001 when he retire