Bonnie Farr is a freelance oboist with an active performing career throughout the Midwest. She is the recently appointed Principal Oboe of the Lexington Philharmonic, adding to her other contracted positions playing oboe and English horn in the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Evansville Philharmonic, and Richmond Symphony. She is also a frequent guest musician in the Louisville Orchestra, Knoxville Symphony, and Fort Wayne Philharmonic, among others. A committed pedagogue, she serves as oboe faculty at Northern Kentucky University and Ohio Northern University, and maintains a private studio at her home in Cincinnati. Bonnie grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, and earned her BM and MM degrees at Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music studying with Mark Ostoich. She followed her music degrees with a yoga certification at the Association for Yoga and Meditation in Rishikesh, India, which later led to teaching seminars on “Yoga and Meditation for Musicians” at several national conferences and universities. When not making music (or reeds), she spends her time collecting far too many houseplants and vinyl records. She has two Siamese-mix cats, Mouni and Line, named after the pet cats belonging to French composers Ravel and Debussy, respectively.