Dr. Euridice Alvarez, Assistant Professor of Oboe, is principal oboist with the Waco Symphony and performs with the Baylor Woodwind Quintet. As a performer and teacher, she has toured Panama, Honduras, Costa Rica and Thailand. Her oboe studies began at the Victoriano López School of Music in her native Honduras with José Ángel Ábrego, and continued at the University of Southern Mississippi (BM), Baylor University (MM) and The Eastman School of Music (DMA). Her primary teachers are Patricia Malone, Doris DeLoach, Geoffrey Burgess and Richard Killmer. Recent symphonic performances have been in Colorado with the Boulder Bach Festival, Boulder Philharmonic, Fort Collins Symphony and Greeley Philharmonic and in Washington, D.C. with the Avanti Symphony. As soloist, notable performances have been with the Saint Malo Festival Orchestra in Panama, the Masterworks Festival Avanti Orchestra in Washington, D.C. and The Nazareth College Symphony in The Bahamas. She has performed and/or presented master classes in Panama, Honduras, Costa Rica, Thailand, Florida, Connecticut, Georgia, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, New Mexico and Texas. She formerly served on the faculty of the University of Southern Mississippi and the University of Northern Colorado.