Jane Murray

Jane Murray holds the solo English horn chair with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, a position she has held since 1978. Her many solos have been hailed in the press as elegant, wistful, spellbinding, beguiling, and scrumptious.

Long a champion of oboe d'amore and English horn, she has premiered several new works for them and was recipient in 2012 of a RI State Council for the Arts grant for a series of concerts of music for English horn and organ performed in several of the area’s magnificent churches.

She also is an accomplished oboist, and performs regularly with several New England area orchestras and choruses, in the pit for Broadway shows, with the Hilltop Trio, and with the wind quintet Northeast Chamber Ensemble, who were the recipients of a Continental Harmony Grant from the NEA, resulting in a series of concerts in collaboration with Gospel choirs on both coasts.

She is a devoted pedagogue, training oboists of all ages, and is on the faculty of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School, St. George’s School, Salve Regina University, and the University of Rhode Island, where she teaches oboe and Somatics: Movement Training for Musicians. She has served on the faculty of the Vermont Youth Orchestra’s summer program and was the artistic director of the Northeast Quintet Camp.

She has performed as soloist with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Ocean State Chamber Orchestra, Fall River Symphony and “Concerts on the Island" Chamber Orchestras, and was the featured oboist at the Newport Music Festival from 1993-2003. She also appeared at the Kingston Chamber Music Festival in 1995, 2008 and 2018, and at Vermont's Reveille Festival from 2011-2014.

Since 2004, she has been a licensed Body Mapping Educator, helping musicians of all ages retrain their movement to allow them to play without pain and avoid injury. In addition to giving individual sessions in her home studio, she is in demand as a clinician and has presented classes and workshops at UMass Amherst, SUNY Purchase, Providence College, Boston Woodwind Society, and for the International Double Reed Society 2016 Conference in Columbus, GA. She teaches the course for music majors at Rhode Island College and URI.

She shares a three-acre spread in Jamestown, Rhode Island with her husband, wood artist Doug Brill and their two dogs and two cats.