Oboist ToniMarie Marchioni is the Professor of Oboe at the University of Kentucky and enjoys a varied career as a performer, educator, arts advocate, and administrator. Her performances praised as “excellent” and “elegantly rendered” by the New York Times, she has performed in Europe, South America, Asia, and throughout the United States.

Dr. Marchioni is a frequent guest musician on oboe and English horn with orchestras around the country including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, Nashville Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra (including the 2016 European Tour), Detroit Symphony, American Ballet Theater, Atlanta Symphony, among others. She is a former member of the IRIS Orchestra (Memphis, TN), Decoda (New York, NY), and for the 2017-18 season, was the Acting Second Oboe for the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC. She is an Alumna of Ensemble Connect/The Academy, a groundbreaking initiative combining chamber music performance, arts advocacy, leadership, and teaching artistry under the auspices of Carnegie Hall and The Juilliard School. Her first commercial recording Légende: Concours for Oboe and Piano with pianist Kevin Murphy was released in 2022 on the Centaur label.

Dr. Marchioni is also a founding member of the Maribo Trio, the faculty reed trio of the University of Kentucky. Named after the members' canine companions (Mabel, Rita, and Bowie), Maribo enthusiastically engages in collaborative chamber performances in a wide variety of settings and seeks to expand the wind chamber repertoire through thoughtful commissioning efforts.

As a passionate interpreter of contemporary music, Dr. Marchioni works directly with composers whenever possible, including Samuel Adler, Virko Baley, Anthony Cheung, Ryan Gallagher, and Huang Ruo. In 2016, she commissioned Discipline for Oboe and Piano from composer Lansing McLoskey, winner of the Robert Avalon International Competition for Composers for this work. She has also commissioned chamber and solo works from composers Mike D'Ambrosio, Carson Cooman, Jeremy Gill, Susanna Hancock, Carlos Martinez, Anna Vinnitsky, Derrick Wang, and Chris Whittaker.

As a soloist, Dr. Marchioni has performed with Ensemble Connect at Carnegie Hall, the New York Classical Players, Orquesta Philarmónica del Ecuador, the New Juilliard Ensemble, the Moab Music Festival, the Lexington Chamber Orchestra, and nearly every large ensemble at the University of Kentucky. She gave the Ecuadorian premiere of the Martinů Oboe Concerto (only the second time it had been played in South America), and the United States premiere of Jonathan Harvey’s concerto Sprechgesang for Oboe and English Horn. Other recent engagements include the Carnegie Hall's collected stories festival curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, the Moab Music Festival, New Harmony Music Festival, the Stefan Wolpe Society, and New York's leading contemporary music venue Spectrum. She was also a semi-finalist at the 2016 Boulder International Chamber Music Competition.

Appointed to the University of Kentucky faculty in 2013, she is a frequent lecturer/performer at International Double Reed Society conferences, an adjunct faculty member of the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts, and a sought after clinician and pedagogue. Recent masterclasses and clinics include Indiana University, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Vanderbilt University, University of Wisconsin - Madison, University of Iowa, University of Georgia, University of South Carolina, The Midwest Clinic, Georgia Music Educators Association, Indiana Music Educators Association, and Kentucky Music Educators Association.

Dr. Marchioni is also a dedicated teacher and advocate for arts education. She has taught with Sinfonia Por La Vida (Ecuador), an organization dedicated to social inclusion through music, and has held faculty positions at the University of Georgia, New Harmony Music Festival (Indiana), Las Vegas Music Festival, and the American Festival for the Arts (Houston, TX). As a fellow in Ensemble Connect, she participated in a 2-year teaching residency with the New York Department of Education, working closely with middle school band students at MS 158 in Bayside, Queens. With Decoda, she participated in a two week residency, working with music students in Abu Dhabi.

Dr. Marchioni’s performances and interviews have been broadcast internationally: as a chamber musician on BBC Radio 3's Composer of the Week, KUHF’s The Front Row, and WEKU's Kentucky Center Stage; as a featured soloist on the NPR/PRI radio program From the Top and WUKY's Essential Classics; as an orchestral musician on NPR’s Performance Today, Classical WETA's Listen Live and NSO Showcase, WRTI's Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert and PBS’s Live from Lincoln Center; and as a “castaway” on WITF’s regional program Desert Island Discs. Also an avid writer, she was a frequent contributor to the Juilliard Journal and has been published in Carnegie Hall’s Playbill as a featured writer and program note annotator.

A native of Mechanicsburg, PA, she holds a Bachelor of Arts cum laude from Harvard University, and the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from The Juilliard School. Her teachers include Elaine Douvas, Eugene Izotov, Pedro Diaz, and Mark McEwen.