Jennifer Corning Lucio

Jennifer Corning Lucio joined the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra as principal oboist in 2001 and has been featured numerous times as concerto soloist with the orchestra. During the summer, she enjoys performing in beautiful Colorado as principal oboist of the Crested Butte Music Festival. She has served as guest principal oboist of the Baltimore, Milwaukee and Seattle symphony orchestras, the IRIS Chamber orchestra, and has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra and Utah Symphony, among many others. Her national television credits include the principal oboist of the PBS Live from Lincoln Center program.

Ms. Corning Lucio was a first prizewinner of the Schubert Club Young Artist Competition of Minneapolis, distinguished award-winner in the Young Artist Competition of the Minnesota Orchestra, and invited as soloist to the Tokyo Opera Hall.

An active chamber musician, she is principal oboist of the Camino del Inka Ensemble and founding member of the Callisto Winds in New York City. Other chamber music performances include the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth, the Cliburn Foundation Concerts, and the Spectrum concert series.

As a student of Elaine Douvas, Jennifer completed her master's degree at the Juilliard School. Her bachelor's degree is from the Cleveland Institute of Music under the instruction of John Mack. While in Cleveland, she received concurrent academic honors from Case Western Reserve University and the Karl Lemmerman Prize in Writing for Immortality, Afterlife, and Ambivalence: Because I Could Not Stop for Death, her work on Emily Dickinson.

Born in St. Louis and now a proud Texan with husband Steven, Jennifer was raised in places as diverse as Panama and Wisconsin. She began playing the piano at age five and the oboe at age ten.