Contra Costa Wind Symphony: Eva Langfeldt

Eva Langfeldt was born and raised in Sitka, Alaska, a town of 5,000 on Baranof Island in Southeast Alaska that is familiar to many cruise ship aficionados. Her mother was a piano teacher, so getting piano lessons at an early age was not hard for Eva. The same can’t be said for her experience as an oboist: In sixth grade, the band teacher, responding to
Eva’s request to switch from clarinet, handed her a musty oboe and an instruction book and Eva Langfeldt wished her good luck.

Eva remained self-taught until she spent her junior year in high school living with relatives in Jerusalem, Israel, where she studied with Moshe Rubenstein of the Israel Radio Philharmonic. Then, at Washington State University, she doubled-majored in music and foreign languages and studied with David Dutton. While working on a Ph.D. in German literature at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, she played recorder, krummhorn, and viola da gamba in various early-music groups at the highly regarded IU School of Music and played oboe and recorder in local chamber music groups.

In 1981, Eva moved to the Bay Area, specifically the Peninsula, where she became chief copy editor at InfoWorld magazine and subsequently of A+ and MacUser magazines. She and three friends formed a semiprofessional recorder quartet called Windstorm, which recently marked its 20th anniversary. In the late 1990s, she volunteered to be in charge of music at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Redwood City, where she played piano and organized and sang in a small choir.

When Eva and her husband, John Barry, and son, Sean Barry, moved to Danville from the Peninsula two and half years ago, the Contra Costa Wind Symphony was the first musical group she joined. Since then, she has made the most of the many musical opportunities this area has to offer, playing oboe and English horn with the Diablo Symphony Orchestra, Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra, Berkeley Opera Orchestra, Berkeley Community Chorus Orchestra, Diablo Light Opera Company, Alameda Civic Light Opera, San Francisco Concerto Orchestra, Pleasanton Playhouse, Pleasanton Community Concert Band, and numerous chamber music groups. One of those chamber music groups is the Devil Mountain Woodwind Quintet, which includes two other members of the Wind Symphony.

In addition to being involved in these musical activities, Eva runs her own freelance editing business, Text Support.


		Meet The Soloist




	Eva Langfeldt was born and raised in Sitka, Alaska, a town of 5,000 on Baranof Island in Southeast Alaska that is familiar to many cruise ship aficionados. Her mother was a piano teacher, so getting piano lessons at an early age was not hard for Eva. The same can’t be said for her experience as an oboist: In sixth grade, the band teacher, responding to Eva’s request to switch from clarinet, handed her a musty oboe and an instruction book and wished her good luck. Eva remained self-taught until she spent her junior year in high school living with relatives in Jerusalem, Israel, where she studied with Moshe Rubenstein of the Israel Radio Philharmonic. Then, at Washington State University, she doubled-majored in music and foreign languages and studied with David Dutton. While working on a Ph.D. in German literature at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, she played recorder, krummhorn, and viola da gamba in various early-music groups at the highly regarded IU School of Music and played oboe and recorder in local chamber music groups. In 1981, Eva moved to the Bay Area, specifically the Peninsula, where she became chief copy editor at InfoWorld magazine and subsequently of A+ and MacUser magazines. She and three friends formed a semiprofessional recorder quartet called Windstorm, which recently marked its 20th anniversary. In the late 1990s, she volunteered to be in charge of music at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Redwood City, where she played piano and organized and sang in a small choir. When Eva and her husband, John Barry, and son, Sean Barry, moved to Danville from the Peninsula two and half years ago, the Contra Costa Wind Symphony was the first musical group she joined. Since then, she has made the most of the many musical opportunities this area has to offer, playing oboe and English horn with the Diablo Symphony Orchestra, Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra, Berkeley Opera Orchestra, Berkeley Community Chorus Orchestra, Diablo Light Opera Company, Alameda Civic Light Opera, San Francisco Concerto Orchestra, Pleasanton Playhouse, Pleasanton Community Concert Band, and numerous chamber music groups. One of those chamber music groups is the Devil Mountain Woodwind Quintet, which includes two other members of the Wind Symphony. In addition to being involved in these musical activities, Eva runs her own freelance editing business, Text Support.
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