Professional profile
Dr. Andrea Gross Hixon has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Asia as a solo, chamber and orchestral musician. She has toured extensively with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra with concerts in France, Italy and the United States, including performances in Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in New York City.

Dr. Hixon was principal oboist of the Eastman Wind Ensemble for two consecutive tours to Japan and Taiwan, and played in the summer opera orchestra for the Schlossfestspiele (Castle Festival) in Heidelberg, Germany. She has also toured with the American-Russian Young Artists Orchestra, whose performances included concerts in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York City, the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and Smetana Hall in Prague, Czech Republic.

 

She is a past participant in the National Orchestral Institute in College Park, Md. Dr. Hixon has also served as principal oboist of the Britt Festival Orchestra in Jacksonville, Ore., and is currently a member of the Woodstock Mozart Festival orchestra each summer in Woodstock, Ill.

 

Dr. Hixon completed studies at the Paris Conservatory. Her oboe teachers include Richard Killmer, David Walter, Marc Fink, Eric Ohlsson and Daniel Stewart.

Previously professor of oboe at the University of Memphis, Dr. Hixon teaches oboe at the Lawrence Academy of Music in Appleton, and joined the St. Norbert College music faculty in the fall of 2006. She is principal oboist of the Green Bay Symphony and a member of the Madison Symphony Orchestra.