Degrees:

The Julliard School, with Bruno Labate and Harold Gomberg
The Curtis Institute of Music, with Marcel Tabuteau

Freelance experience:

New Orleans Symphony, principal oboe
The National Symphony, principal oboe
The Casals, Prades and Perpignan Festivals, principal oboe
Kent/Blossom Music School, Chairman of Winds

Honors

(1965) - appointed to the faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music
( January 1991) - honored at his twenty-fifth anniversary with The Cleveland Orchestra, with which he performed the world premiere of Ellen Taafe Zwilich's Oboe Concerto, commissioned for the occasion.
(1992) - Honorary Doctor of Music, Curtis Institute of Music

More Stuff

JM retired from The Cleveland Orchestra in 2001, where he had been principal oboe since 1965.

John Mack Oboe Camp

The idea for the camp came from Joe Robinson, retired principal oboe with the New York Philharmonic. Joe studied with Marcel Tabuteau after he retired to France, and, given such remarkable training, he wanted a way for Tabuteau's methods and wisdom to be shared broadly. JM had come under Tabuteau's spell while rather young. He . Joe approached him, seeking to establish a means for Tabuteau's technique to be taught to oboists from varied backgrounds. The result was the John Mack Oboe Camp, which has been held at Wildacres Retreat, near Little Switzerland, NC. The camp was a resounding success and has been held each summer since that first occasion in 1976.