ABOUT SAND DALTON
Sand Dalton began playing the baroque oboe in 1975 after graduating from
the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied modern oboe with
Allan Vogel. A year later he made his first instrument and began an extensive
and on-going study of historical oboes which has taken him to many museums
and private collections both in Europe and North America.
Concurrently, he has pursued an active career as a performer and teacher.
Over the years he has performed and recorded with many ensembles, including
the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Boston Baroque, the Handel and Haydn
Society, Magnificat, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Seattle Baroque and the
Pacific Baroque Orchestra of Vancouver, B.C. His long experience playing
in baroque orchestral and chamber music has provided him with an ideal 'laboratory'
in which to test and refine his ideas about making good musical instruments.
He has been of the faculties of the New England Conservatory, the University
of British Columbia and Longy School of Music, as well as taught at the
summer workshops for the San Francisco Early Music Society, Vancouver Early
Music Program, Amherst Early Music Workshop and the International Baroque
Institute at Longy. In 2000 be began directing his own summer workshop for
baroque oboes and bassoons on Lopez Island in Washington State.
Described by CBC Radio as "one of the leading baroque oboists in North
America whose fine instruments are played around the world." Sand Dalton
is dedicated to making oboes of the highest musical and technical standard. |

|