Peggy Pearson is a winner of the Pope Foundation Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Music. She gave her New York debut with soprano Dawn Upshaw in 1995. She is a member of the Bach Aria Group and solo oboist with the Emmanuel Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Pearson is Director of Winsor Music, Inc.; she is also Artistic Director of, and oboist with, the Winsor Music Chamber Series, a founding member of the chamber group, La Fenice, principal oboe with the Boston Philharmonic. Ms. Pearson has toured internationally and recorded extensively with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and has appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Music from Marlboro. She has premiered numerous works, many of which were written specifically for her. She is featured with Dawn Upshaw and Lorraine Hunt on a recording of John Harbison's music (Archetype); she has premiered and recorded Davidovsky’s Quartetto (Bridge), John Harbison's Snow Country (Archetype), and Peter Child's Sonatina (CRI), among others. She was a founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning Emmanuel Wind Quintet.