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“...a beautiful sense of line and shape.”
Journal of the International Double Reed Society
“...a commanding player...she makes a big colorful sound that she uses to create clear-headed decisive statements.”
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“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
Faculty, The Juilliard School and Yale School of Music
“Andrea Gullickson possesses the gift to communicate with an audience, for her performance was musically moving and technically impressive.”
Dr. Valerie Watts, Professor of Music
The University of Oklahoma
“...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
“Her sensitive and creative musicianship is a joy to experience.”
Dr. James Grine, Professor of Music
The University Wisconsin-Oshkosh
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With concert appearances throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, Andrea Gullickson has quickly become one of America’s most successful oboe soloists. Passionate and creative music-making has won her universal critical acclaim from both press and audience members. Reviewers find her performances marked by “passages of ghostly beauty played with transparent grace” (Santa Barbara Independent), and that “she plays with a beautiful sense of line and shape” (Journal of the International Double Reed) and a “big colorful sound that she uses to make clear-headed, decisive statements” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinal).
Andrea’s recent concert engagements have included solo and chamber music performances at the Rimsky-Korsakov National Conservatory (St. Petersburg, Russia), National Museum for Women in Arts (Washington D.C.), Wuhan Conservatory of Music (Wuhan, China), Banff Centre for the Arts, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall as well as on numerous concert series throughout the Midwest. Her first solo CD, The Poetic Oboe, was released by Crystal Records in 2004. The reviewer for Fanfare describes her playing as “...some of the finest I have heard. Her tone is pure, focused, and unforced--perfectly natural sounding and effortless.” Dr. Gullickson’s newest CD, Down A River of Time, (Cala label) is a collection of oboe concertos recorded with the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. Music critic Jonathan Woolf (MusicWeb International) cites her as “highly accomplished” and declares “…she weaves her patterns over contemporary and baroque with equal pleasure.”
Andrea Gullickson is the Chair of the Department of Music at Butler University. Prior to joining the faculty at Butler University, she served as Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh where she held the Oshkosh Northwestern Endowed Professorship and received the University’s most prestigious award, the John McNaughton Rosebush Professorship, granted for excellence in teaching, professional achievement, and public service.
