Marc Schachman was born in Berkeley, California, and attended Stanford University and the Juilliard School, where he was awarded the B.S, M.S., and the D.M.A. degrees. One of the world’s leading performers on early oboes, Mr. Schachman is a founding member of some of America’s seminal period instrument chamber groups--The Aulos Ensemble (1973), The Amadeus Winds (1983), and The Helicon Winds (1994). He has performed as principal oboist and soloist with virtually all of this country’s “original instrument” orchestras, including Philharmonia Baroque (San Francisco), Handel and Haydn Society and Boston Baroque (Boston), The American Classical Orchestra (New York), the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra (Washington, D.C.). His numerous recordings cover a wide variety of styles and genres, and include “Venetian Oboe Concerti” (Centaur), the Mozart oboe quartet (Harmonia Mundi) and Mozart oboe concerto (Musicmasters), Concerti and chamber music of Bach, Couperin, Handel, Telemann, and Vivaldi with the Aulos Ensemble (Centaur and MHS/Musicmasters) , Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti and Orchestral Suites (Telarc), Wind music of Mozart and Beethoven (L’Oiseau Lyre, Sony) , Bach cantatas, passions, and oratorios with Cantata Collective (Centaur and AVIE) and the Schumann Romances for oboe and piano (Helicon), which the New York Times described as “pure magic”.
Mr. Schachman has served on the faculties of Vassar College, Boston University, and the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin College. He has given workshops and master classes at the Juilliard School, the Curtis Institute of Music, San Francisco Conservatory. and at colleges and universities throughout the U.S. Festival appearances include Spoleto, Edinburgh, Goettingen, Perth, Tanglewood, Ravinia, and Mostly Mozart. Upon his return from New York to the Bay Area in 2017 he co-founded the Cantata Collective, a group devoted to the vocal chamber music of JS Bach.
Mr. Schachman has served on the faculties of Vassar College, Boston University, and the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin College. He has given workshops and master classes at the Juilliard School, the Curtis Institute of Music, San Francisco Conservatory. and at colleges and universities throughout the U.S. Festival appearances include Spoleto, Edinburgh, Goettingen, Perth, Tanglewood, Ravinia, and Mostly Mozart. Upon his return from New York to the Bay Area in 2017 he co-founded the Cantata Collective, a group devoted to the vocal chamber music of JS Bach.