Anna Pennington
Assistant Professor
D.M., The Florida State University
M.M., The Manhattan School of Music
B.M., The University of Texas
E-mail: Anna.Pennington@usm.edu
Oboist Anna Pennington has performed solo, orchestral, opera, and chamber music throughout Europe and the Americas. She has been a part of numerous chamber ensembles performing live on National Public Radio and at Lincoln Center and made appearances in Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and Alice Tully Hall, among others. She has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Jacksonville Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, the Charleston Symphony, and the Florida West Coast Symphony. She currently holds the English horn chair of the Pensacola Symphony. Her numerous orchestral credits include playing under the baton of conductors Valery Gergiev, Marcello Viotti, Mariss Jansons, Alan Gilbert, Kurt Masur, and Lorin Maazel. She has performed in many festivals, including the New Texas Festival, the Brevard Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Victoria Bach Festival, and the Salzburger Festspiele.
In 2003 Dr. Pennington was chosen as the solo oboist of the Planets, a classical fusion ensemble signed with EMI Classics in London. She appeared as soloist with the Florida State University Symphony in 2005, performing the Corigliano Oboe Concerto to enthusiastic accolades. She has been involved in many different recording projects, including the Jacksonville Symphony’s first CD, featuring Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.
Passionate about teaching, Dr. Pennington has maintained an active studio alongside her dynamic performing career. She taught at the Manhattan School of Music in 2002, and she has given master classes in France, Venezuela, and the United States.
Dr. Pennington is the newly appointed Assistant Professor of Oboe at the University of Southern Mississippi School of Music in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In addition to teaching oboe and freshman theory, she performs as a member of Category 5, the wind quintet featuring other faculty members at the School of Music.
A native of Texas, Dr. Pennington attended the University of Texas, where she earned the Bachelor of Music degree. She earned the Master of Music degree in Orchestra Performance at the Manhattan School of Music, and the Doctor of Music degree at the Florida State University. Her teachers have included Joseph Robinson, Eric Ohlsson, John Snow, and Beth Sanders.