Guest Artist Recital

Featuring Michael Isaac Ripple

Michael Isaac Ripple is the Adjunct Professor of Oboe at Mercer University’s Townsend School of Music and the Visiting Instructor of Oboe at Georgia Southern University’s Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music. He is also Co-Artistic Director of The Horizon Series, a nonprofit chamber music collective and summer festival.

Ripple is an in-demand educator, chamber musician, and performer throughout the country, currently based in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the owner/operator of Grind City Reeds.

A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, he pursued his undergraduate degree in oboe performance as a student of Frank Rosenwein. He is also a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy, where he was a student of Daniel Stolper. He was the founding oboist of Catharsis Winds, an international and national award winning wind quintet.

He holds a Master of Music in oboe performance from the University of Memphis Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music, and he is currently pursuing his doctoral degree in oboe performance with an additional focus in composition as the student of Dr. Michelle Vigneau and Dr. Kamran Ince.