About

Oboist Galit Kaunitz is the Assistant Professor of Oboe at Colorado State University. She is a seasoned pedagogue with an active performing career including solo, chamber music, and orchestral concerts across the United States.

Galit explores themes of culture and identity through her solo and chamber music recitals. She is dedicated to expanding the canon to included works by underrepresented and displaced composers, and enthusiastically collaborates with composers to commission new works for the oboe. She is rediscovering the music of Elizabeth Gyring, a Viennese Jewish composer who was displaced by World War II. In collaboration with pianist Michael Bunchman and musicologist Barbara Dietlinger, Galit is performing and recording Gyring’s works for oboe so they may be rightfully enjoyed by oboists and audiences everywhere. Galit’s research interests are not limited to historic rediscovery. She recorded All Are Welcome: Works for Oboe and Bassoon with Jacqueline Wilson, bassoon, and Fabio Menchetti, piano, on Washington State University Recordings in 2022. All Are Welcome is the culmination of the Double Reed Dish Commission Consortium project and includes works by Connor Chee, Kate Pukinskis, Mason Bynes, and brin solomon. Galit has been invited to perform both solo and chamber music repertoire at International Double Reed Society conferences (2015, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2024), and College Music Society National Conferences (2015, 2019).

Galit is an experienced orchestral musician. During her time in the southeast, she performed with the Mobile, Baton Rouge, Meridian, Gulf Coast, and Mississippi Symphony Orchestras and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. This season, she has been invited to perform with the Colorado Bach Ensemble, Wyoming and Cheyenne Symphony Orchestras, and the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra.

Galit is grateful to have studied under Eric Ohlsson, Rebecca Henderson, Humbert Lucarelli, and Marilyn Krentzman. She is proud to be a Marigaux artist and plays on a Marigaux 901/901P. She lives in Colorado with her wife and three rambunctious dogs.