Phoebe Xu

About

Sydney oboist, Phoebe Xu is a first-year student of Juliana Koch at the Royal College of Music as an RCM scholar and Tait Trust Scholar. While in Australia, she studied with Callum Hogan and Alexandre Oguey. Phoebe has enjoyed playing in the Australian Youth Orchestra since 2022 and is also a casual musician with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Phoebe performed her own composition at the Sydney Opera House after being selected by the Australian NSW Education Standards Authority for outstanding composition and performance in the HSC. In the NSW Secondary Schools concerto competition, she won the Barbara Robinson Prize and KPO award after performing Mozart Oboe Concerto with the Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra as a soloist. She has enjoyed taking part in a variety of chamber music projects, in particular, a performance of Valerie Coleman’s ‘Red Clay & Mississippi Delta’ at Hayes St Studio.