Rate My Professor Lara Dahl

Dr. Lara Dahl serves as Principal Lecturer of Oboe in the School of Music at Georgia State University, where she has been on faculty for over nineteen years, achieving the rank of Principal Senior Lecturer in 2019. She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from Arizona State University, studying oboe with Martin Schuring, and her Bachelor of Music from Brigham Young University under Geralyn Giovannetti. Before joining Georgia State, Dr. Dahl held the position of adjunct instructor of oboe at Utah State University and served as sabbatical replacement oboe professor at Brigham Young University and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in fall 2003. In summer 2007, she studied with Joseph Robinson, former principal oboist of the New York Philharmonic. At Georgia State, she teaches Applied Oboe, Fundamentals of Music Theory, and Music, Society, and Culture survey courses. She has held key administrative roles including Woodwind Area Coordinator for the past several years, Director of Graduate Studies for the past few years, and was appointed the College of Arts' first Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Advocate in August 2022.