Tina James has been freelancing on oboe and English horn for over twenty-five years, having landed her first gig as a soloist in a pilot film score at the age of sixteen. Currently on faculty at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, she has also served on music faculties at both Weber State University and St. Cloud State University. Previous performance engagements have included the Utah Symphony Orchestra, VocalEssence, Ballet West, Colors of the Baroque, Sinfonia da Camera, the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra and the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra. Tina has recorded with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, The Minnesota Opera and has played for several feature film scores. You may have heard her locally with Mannheim Steamroller, Loyce Houlton’s Nutcracker and in the pit orchestra at the Orpheum for Broadway Across America (Wicked, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady). These days, however, you’ll find her primarily in her home studio where she mentors forty of the most fun and talented oboe and piano students around or making great musical memories with her friends and colleagues in the St. Croix Valley Symphony Orchestra.