JOEL BARD
Artistic Advisor and Principal Oboe
Joel Bard received his Bachelor of Music in oboe at the Cleveland Institute studying with John Mack and went on to get his Master of Music degree studying oboe and orchestral conducting at The Juilliard School where he studied with Jorge Mester, Sixten Ehrling and participated in master classes with Leonard Bernstein. Joel has worked as a freelance oboist and conductor in the Philadelphia and Boston areas and served on the faculty of the Longy School of Music in Cambridge. He was the director of the Repertory Orchestra at the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras from 1989 until 2011. In parallel, Joel received a Ph.D in biochemistry from Harvard University and did his postdoctoral fellowship in x-ray crystallography at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute. He is currently a Research Fellow at Pfizer and leads a bioinformatics group supporting biotherapeutic drug discovery.