Jessica Mogridge
Oboe

Jessica studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester where she won the Hilda Collens memorial prize. She won a Countess of Munster scholarship to undertake a postgraduate course at the Royal College of Music in London, where she then won an Exhibition and the Joy Boughton and Hilda Anderson Deane oboe prizes.

In 1998 Jessica was appointed Principal Cor Anglais with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra where she stayed for three years. Since returning to the UK in 2001, Jessica has worked with many of the country’s major orchestras and is a regular member of the City of Oxford Orchestra, with whom she has performed Copland’s Quiet City.