Fatma Daglar is the principal oboist of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Maryland Symphony Orchestra. She also held the position of acting assistant principal/second oboe with the Louisville Orchestra during their 2003-04 season.

Ms. Daglar works actively as a freelance musician; she has performed on oboe and English horn with such groups as the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, National Chamber Orchestra, Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Concert Artists of Baltimore, The Melos Ensemble, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and Fairfax Symphony Orchestra. Her most recent engagements include performances and a recording with the Choral Arts Society of Washington at the Kennedy Center, a concert with Arlo Guthrie in Carnegie Hall, and the performance of Nicholas Maw’s Oboe Concerto with the Peabody Camerata. She performed Mozart’s Oboe Concerto in C with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, and Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra. Previously, she was also soloist with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra during a performance of J.S. Bach’s cantata Ich habe genug (under the direction of her former oboe teacher, the late Sara Watkins) and the Concerto for Oboe and Violin.

During her studies and professional career, Ms. Daglar has been the recipient of the Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Orchestral Scholarship, the Fannie Mae Foundation Sponsorship, and several career development grants from the Peabody Institute. She toured Japan with the Eastwinds Quintet in 1995, and she also participated in a tour of the United States with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra in 1997.

Fatma Daglar is an enthusiastic performer of early music: she has been playing the baroque oboe since the summer of 1998, when she first attended the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute as a scholarship student. She has performed on period instruments with the AmaDeus Ensemble, Brandywine Baroque, Modern Musick, the Bach Sinfonia, and the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute Orchestra.

By music critics of the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, and the Annapolis Capital, her work has been described as “of virtuoso caliber, enthusiastically received”; “touching, bittersweet tone”; and “well-rounded tone with a beautiful vibrato.” She has been featured on WETA, WBJC, and Voice of America Radio.

Fatma Daglar attended the Robert College High School of Istanbul and the Istanbul Conservatory of Music, where she received her bachelor’s degree in music. She also holds a master’s degree and a graduate performance diploma in oboe performance from the Peabody Conservatory. She has taught at Georgetown University, Goucher College, Anne Arundel Community College, and is currently a faculty member at the Peabody Preparatory.