Stefanie Przybylska

Stefanie Przybylska has played principal bassoon with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra since the 1998-99 season and has appeared as a featured soloist on the orchestra's Mozart Festival. In addition to her position with the NMSO, she has a private teaching studio and plays principal bassoon with the Santa Fe Symphony. She has performed locally on the Placitas Artists Series and with organizations such as the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Santa Fe Opera. As a soloist she has recently appeared with the San Juan Symphony and the Albuquerque Concert Band.

A native New Yorker, Stefanie graduated from the Juilliard School where she studied with Stephen Maxym. She was selected to participate at the Marlboro Music Festival where she performed chamber music with members of the Juilliard, Guarneri and Emerson string quartets, as well as with Rudolf Serkin, Peter Serkin and Harold Wright. She can be heard on Marlboro Festival recordings which are available on the Sony label.

Before moving to New Mexico, Stefanie was active as a freelance musician and teacher in Chicago. She performed frequently with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra both locally and abroad, and was involved in several recording projects with that group. During this time she taught at the Interlochen Arts Academy where she helped prepare her students for further study at schools such as the Curtis Institute, the Eastman School of Music and the Oberlin Conservatory.

Stefanie enjoys the beauty of New Mexico and the warmth of its people and is very grateful to all who have helped make her feel at home here. Recently she helped start the Bosque Bassoon Band, a group which performs chamber music for multiple bassoons in informal and educational settings.