Monica Fosnaugh

About Monica

Monica Fosnaugh was appointed to the English horn position of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 2012 by Music Director Laureate Leonard Slatkin. Fosnaugh has been a featured soloist with the DSO, performing Quiet City by Aaron Copland and Endgames by Leonard Slatkin. In 2024, she was a soloist on Quiet City with The Syracuse Orchestra.

Prior to joining the DSO, Fosnaugh held the english horn positions with the Syracuse Symphony and the Rochester Philharmonic, and held oboe positions with the Kalamazoo and New Haven symphony orchestras. Fosnaugh has performed as guest english horn with The Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, and the Houston Symphony, and as a guest oboist with the symphony orchestras of Cincinnati and San Diego.

Fosnaugh spent nine summers with the Colorado Music Festival in Boulder, and performed in the inaugural year of the Hamptons Festival of Music. While in school, she participated in the Chautauqua Institute, the Kent/Blossom Music Festival, and the National Repertory Orchestra.

In addition to her orchestra work, Fosnaugh is an active chamber musician, and has been featured on recitals and masterclasses throughout Metro Detroit and around the country, including the Interlochen Center for the Arts, the North Carolina School of the Arts, Bowling Green State University, and Western Ontario University.

Born in Lima, Ohio, Fosnaugh attended the Cleveland Institute of Music where she studied with John Mack, the former principal oboe of The Cleveland Orchestra. Fosnaugh continued her studies with Robert Atherholt at Rice University in Houston. She was also an oboe fellow at the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, where she worked under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas.