Rick Basehore, a Rochester, NY native, is an active freelance oboist in the DC metro area. His performing schedule includes orchestral concerts across the mid-Atlantic region from Norfolk, VA to New York City. He is currently the Principal Oboist of the Allentown Symphony, Fairfax (VA) Symphony, and Sarasota (FL) Opera, orchestras, Second Oboist/English Hornist of the Annapolis Symphony, and the English Hornist of the Maryland and Harrisburg Symphony orchestras. He regularly plays with the Grammy-nominated professional choir, Seraphic Fire, and can be heard on their recording of Bach's Cantata 84. Rick moved to DC in 2008 to assume the duties of Co-Principal Oboist with "The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band. He spent his four-year enlistment playing for 2 Presidents, various visiting foreign dignitaries, and tens of thousands of Americans on four separate tours across the country. Other previous positions include Principal Oboist of the Kentucky Symphony, Second Oboist with the Binghamton Philharmonic, and Third Oboist with the Virginia Symphony. Over the last 25 years, Rick has travelled across the world, playing music festivals in places such as Moscow, Jerusalem, Aspen, and Stuttgart; in 2001 he spent two months playing with the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra in Yekaterinburg, Russia as part of a cross-cultural residency program. Between 1998 and 2002, he toured extensively and recorded with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. Rick studied with Richard Killmer at the Eastman School of Music and Mark Ostoich at the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. He also spent three years in the New World Symphony, America's only full-time training orchestra for professional musicians.