About

Oboist Galit Kaunitz is the Assistant Professor of Oboe at Colorado State University. She is a seasoned pedagogue with an active performing career including solo, chamber music, and orchestral concerts across the United States.

Galit explores themes of culture and identity through her solo and chamber music recitals. She enthusiastically collaborates with composers to commission new works for the oboe, and is dedicated to expanding the canon to include works by underrepresented and displaced composers. She is rediscovering the music of Elizabeth Gyring, a Viennese Jewish composer. In collaboration with pianist Michael Bunchman and musicologist Barbara Dietlinger, Galit is championing Gyring’s works so they may be rightfully enjoyed by oboists and audiences everywhere. She and Bunchman released Into the Light: Music for Oboe and Piano by Elizabeth Gyring and Alexander Wunderer in 2025. Galit’s research interests are not limited to historic rediscovery. She recorded All Are Welcome: Works for Oboe and Bassoon with Jacqueline Wilson, bassoon, and Fabio Menchetti, piano, on Washington State University Recordings in 2022. All Are Welcome is the culmination of the Double Reed Dish Commission Consortium project and includes works by Connor Chee, Kate Pukinskis, Mason Bynes, and brin solomon. Galit has been invited to perform both solo and chamber music repertoire at several International Double Reed Society conferences and College Music Society National Conferences.

Galit is sought-after as a master class clinician, and has given classes at the International Double Reed Society (2026), Lucarelli Oboe Master Class, UNIRIO (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Louisiana State University, University of Oklahoma, University of Florida, University of Alabama, University of Iowa, and more. As on orchestral musician, she has been invited to perform with the Colorado, Cheyenne, Wyoming, Mobile, Baton Rouge, Meridian, Gulf Coast, and Mississippi Symphony Orchestras, the Greeley and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Colorado Bach Ensemble.

Galit is grateful to have studied under Eric Ohlsson, Rebecca Henderson, Humbert Lucarelli, and Marilyn Krentzman. She is a Marigaux artist and plays on a Marigaux 901/901P. Today, she lives in northern Colorado with her wife and three beloved dogs.