Dione Chandler

Since 2014, Dr. Dione Chandler has been an Adjunct Professor of Oboe at Stetson University, where she also teaches aural training, music elective classes, coaches chamber music, and performs in the faculty woodwind trio, Veritate Winds. She is also Director of the annual Double Reed Workshop, an intensive week-long summer camp for middle and high school oboists and bassoonists. Previously, she has served on the faculties of the University of Florida, Texas Tech University, and Florida International University, as well as the International Association of Music Education (I-AME) in Prague. Chandler is an active adjudicator with the Florida Bandmasters Association and has presented masterclasses throughout Florida and the Southeast United States.

Dione has performed numerous solo and chamber music recitals in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Czech Republic. An active supporter of new music, Chandler has been involved in numerous commissioning projects with composers such as Margi Griebling-Haigh, Chiayu Hsu, Jim Stephenson, Sydney Hodkinson, Dana Wilson, Mason Bynes, Connor Chee, Katherine Pukinskis, Brin Solomon, Tom McColley, Joshua Burel, Joseph Sowa, and B. Glenn Chandler. She was a recipient of an International Double Reed Society 50 for 50 Commissioning Grant and has performed world premieres at the International Double Reed Conference and the International ClarinetFest. She frequently performs with the Orlando Philharmonic, Naples Philharmonic, The Florida Orchestra, and Sarasota Orchestra, and was principal oboist of the Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra for 24 years until its closure.

Since 2013, Dione has volunteered as a court-appointed Guardian ad Litem, where she advocates on behalf of children and youth. She has also served on numerous orchestra and academic committees. She holds music degrees from Florida State University, the University of Southern California, and Rice University, and has attended Banff Center for the Arts, Aspen Music Festival, and American Institute of Music (AIMS) in Graz, Austria.