Professor Leah Forsyth currently  serves as Assistant Professor of Oboe at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, LA.  NSU boasts a fantastic and thriving School of Creative and Performing Arts.  There are great scholarships available to both undergraduate and graduate students in Music Performance, Music Education and Music Business.  Please contact the NSU Oboe studio at forsythl@nsula.edu and please click on the links below to follow us on social media.  We have a lot of FUN!

NSU Double Reed Day 2023!

Saturday January 14, 12-5:30

Oboists and bassoonists of all levels are welcome to join us for a fun afternoon of Masterclasses, reed discussions, shopping, and a guest artist and NSU double reed faculty recital.

All events will be held at the Northwestern State University Dear School of Creative and Performing Arts in Natchitoches, LA. Registration is $25 until Jan 2nd and $35 after.

Click HERE to register

Schedule COMING SOON!

Please visit our website to find out more information about your hosts, Professor Leah Forsyth and Dr. Douglas Bakenhus, as well as more about Music at the School of Creative & Performing Arts at Northwestern State in Natchitoches, Louisiana… capa.nsula.edu/music.

Meet our DOUBLE REED DAY 2023 guest artist:

LEYLA ZAMORA, BASSOON

Leyla Zamora has been a member of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra since 2005. Ms. Zamora studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Baylor University and DePaul University in Chicago. Before joining the San Diego Symphony, Ms. Zamora held for 11 years the position of principal bassoon with the Memphis Symphony. She has also performed with Atlanta and Saint Louis Symphonies, Seattle Symphony, Auckland Philharmonia in New Zealand, and the Costa Rican National Symphony.
Ms. Zamora has participated in orchestral and chamber music festivals such as La Jolla Music Fest, Mainly Mozart, Cabrillo Festival, Britt and Cascade Festivals in Oregon, Ameropa in Prague, Apple Hill Chamber Music Center, International Orchestra in Japan, Spoleto Music Festival in Italy, and the Des Moines Metro Opera. Ms. Zamora has presented master classes and recitals at the Universities of Central Florida, Arizona, Idaho, Wichita State, Southern Mississippi, University of Memphis, Washburn University in Kansas, University of the Pacific in Stockton, and has performed solo concerti and recitals in Costa Rica, Colombia, Japan, Czech Republic, and the former Soviet Union.