Oboist Grace Woodworth is an active performer, teacher, and chamber musician currently based in the Paducah, Kentucky area. She has performed nationally and internationally, appearing with the Nashville Symphony, Austin Symphony, Baton Rouge Symphony, Tennessee Philharmonic, National Repertory Orchestra, Rapides Symphony, and Banff Festival Orchestras. Currently, she performs with the Paducah Symphony Orchestra as their principal oboe, as well as serves as the director of their new PSO Music Academy. Prior to this appointment, Grace served on the faculties of Belmont University, Middle Tennessee State University, and Tennessee State University and freelanced as an orchestral and session musician. Grace's playing can be heard on the soundtracks for major motion pictures such as Home Again (2017) and My Little Pony (2017), the hit show Fargo, and video games including Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Destiny 2. 
 
Grace has participated in many prestigious summer music festivals, including the Banff Festival Orchestra and Masterclasses, Brevard Music Festival, Pierre Monteux Festival for Conductors and Instrumentalists, Marrowstone Music Festival, Hot Springs Music Festival, and most recently, at the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, CO.  She has performed in numerous master classes, working with the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, Alex Klein, Robert Atherholt, Erin Hannigan, Carolyn Hove, Marion Kuszyk, and the Imani Winds.  She is a three-time finalist for the Nashville Symphony’s Young Artist Concerto Competition, and first prize winner in the NOLA Chamber Fest Competition in 2016 with her woodwind quintet, West Chimes Winds.

Dr. Woodworth holds degrees from Eastman School of Music, Louisiana State University, and the University of Texas at Austin.  Her principal teachers have included Richard Killmer, Rebecca Henderson, and Johanna Cox Pennington.