Dr. Hilary Hobbs teaches at the College of Wooster as the Adjunct Instructor of Oboe and at Kenyon College as the Adjunct Instructor of Double Reeds. She served as Principal Oboe of the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra for the 2023-2024 season. She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts (2023) degree from Rutgers University studying under Andrew Adelson, and both her Master (2019) and Bachelor of Music (2017) degrees from The Ohio State University studying under Robert Sorton. Dr. Hobbs has performed at the following music festivals: the Los Angeles Film Conducting Studio Intensive, Lake George Music Festival, Festival Napa Valley, the Akropolis Chamber Music Institute, Atlantic Music Festival, Hidden Valley Music Seminar, Fresh Inc. Festival, Rocky Ridge Young Artist Seminar, and the International Music Mastercourses Festival. She served as Principal Oboe (2022-2023) and Second Oboe/English Horn (2021-2022) in the Brook Orchestra in Bound Brook, NJ. Additionally, she has performed with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Huntington Symphony Orchestra, Westerville Symphony, Central Ohio Symphony, South Orange Symphony, Monmouth Symphony, Worthington Chamber Orchestra and the Knox County Symphony. She maintains her own reed making business and private lessons studio in Grove City, OH.