Pavel Morunov

Pavel Morunov is a full-time member of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic in the oboe section. He is also serving as the oboe professor at Purdue University Fort Wayne School of Music. Prior to that, Pavel was a member of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra as the English horn, and later as the Assistant Principal Oboe player.

Pavel Morunov is a native of Russia. He received his education at Gnessins' Russian State Academy of Music in Moscow where he studied with Professor Anatoly Liubimov, former Principal Oboe player of the Russian Academic State Symphony Orchestra. During the last three years of his study at the Gnessins’ Academy Pavel served as a full-time member of Moscow theater orchestra “The New Opera”. After receiving his Bachelor and Graduate School diplomas he was admitted into the post-graduate program at the Academy but had left the country to continue his education in the United States. Pavel received his Master of Music degree from Northwestern University, where he studied with the former Principal Oboe player of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Mr. Ray Still. In the summer 2005 Pavel attended Aspen Music Festival as a recipient of the Noyce Bowers Oboe Fellowship. He received the dedicated English horn fellowship for the summer of 2006 and 2007 from the same festival. Pavel received Professional Studies Diploma from Mannes College of Music, the division of the New School University, where he studied with Professor Elaine Douvas, Principal Oboe player of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. In the spring of 2003 Pavel became a recipient of the Collins Distinguished Graduate Fellowship of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed his doctoral degree in music performance in 2015. Pavel is married to Johanna Bourkova-Morunov, Associate Concertmaster of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, and together they are raising three young children.