Praised for her “deeply moving” playing in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie by the Hamburger Abendblatt, oboist Mia Fasanello is a Boston-based musician whose work spans orchestral, chamber, and solo performance on oboe, English horn, and oboe d’amore.

Mia performs frequently with Emmanuel Music, including several appearances in Music Worcester’s The Complete Bach project. She has also appeared with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Cantata Singers, New England Philharmonic, Coro Allegro, and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra—where she performed regularly during its 2022 and 2023 summer seasons and in productions of The Nutcracker at Shea’s Buffalo Theatre.

She is Principal Oboe of the Boston Civic Symphony and serves as oboist, Director of Operations, and Music Librarian for the Apollo Ensemble of Boston.

In May 2026, Mia appeared with Enigma Classica under Anna Handler for a sold-out performance at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie with tenor Jonathan Tetelman, performing as part of an 18-player chamber orchestra. She previously appeared with the ensemble at the Bayreuth Young Artists Festival in 2022.

Other notable performances include a sold-out appearance at Carnegie Hall as guest second oboe with the Kazakh State Symphony Orchestra alongside conductor Andreas Delfs, violinist Aiman Mussakhajayeva, composer Lowell Liebermann, and guest musicians from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

As a soloist, Mia has performed the Mozart Oboe Concerto with the Genesee Symphony Orchestra and the Vaughan Williams Oboe Concerto with the Greater Buffalo Youth Orchestra. She also performed as solo oboist in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major on a European tour culminating in a sold-out performance at Prague’s Dvořák Hall.

Mia was a 2024 fellow at the Emmanuel Music Bach Institute and previously held fellowships at the Chautauqua Institution School of Music Festival Orchestra from 2019–2021.

Mia earned a Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Elaine Douvas, and a Master of Music degree from Boston University under Mark McEwen. She also has studied with Peggy Pearson, Henry Ward, Scott Hostetler, Nathan Hughes, Linda Strommen, Jan Eberle, and Anna Mattix.

Originally from Buffalo, New York, Mia is now based in Providence, Rhode Island.