Oboe
Class Woodwinds
Theory Skills
Faculty, Robert E. Cook Honors College
Assistant Chair and Graduate Coordinator

Stephanie Caulder a native of Wilmington, N.C. is Associate Professor of Oboe at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She earned the D.M. in oboe performance from The Florida State University where she studied with Eric Ohlsson, and the M.M. in multiple woodwind performance and B.A. in Music from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. While at UNCG, Dr. Caulder's primary oboe teachers were James Prodan and Ashley Barret, however, she studied woodwind performance as well as conducting privately with faculty members Kelly Burke, Michael Burns, Steven Stusek, Deborah Egekvist, and John Locke.
Dr. Caulder is an active teacher and performer and has performed with many orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout the southeast. She has performed frequently with the Johnstown Symphony, Keystone Winds, Tallahassee Symphony, Pensacola Symphony, Southeastern Chamber Orchestra, Opera a la carte, Greensboro Symphony, Durham Symphony, Charlotte Philharmonic and Charlotte Repertory Orchestra, and the Wilmington Symphony Orchestras. Most recently, Dr. Caulder was an Artist/Presenter at the International Double Reed Society Conference in the summer of 2003.
As an active scholar and adjudicator, Dr. Caulder has written articles for the North Carolina Music Educators Journal as well as the Double Reed, the publication for the International Double Reed Society. Dr. Caulder can be heard on a recent Koch International release performing as principal oboist with The Florida State University Orchestra. The group recorded three concertos by Pulitzer prize winning composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich along with the Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson trio and Michael Stern, conductor. Dr. Caulder is an active member of the International Double Reed Society, MENC, College Music Society, Pi Kappa Lambda, and chapter patroness of Delta Omicron.
Dr. Caulder presently serves the Music Department as Assistant Chairperson and Coordinator of Graduate Studies.