Alicia Chapman is principal oboist with the Asheville Symphony (NC), the Symphony of the Mountains (TN), and plays Baroque oboe with the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra. She has toured Europe, the former DDR, and Southeast Asia as a chamber musician, has performed with the Metropolitan and New York City Operas, and has recorded with New York Philomusica, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, and New York Kammermusiker.  She has participated in early music programs at Oberlin, Indiana University, and Cambridge (UK).

Alicia is Associate Professor of Oboe at Appalachian State University’s Hayes School of Music, where she is director of the Collegium Musicum, an early music class and performance ensemble, coordinator of the woodwind chamber music program, and is the founding member of Harmonia Baroque, the School of Music’s resident period instrument ensemble. A native Vermonter, Alicia Chapman began studies of the oboe with Neil Boyer at the University of Vermont, and earned both Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees from the Mannes College of Music, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the City University of New York. 

Alicia is an accomplished equestrian and pet parent to her dog, three cats, and outstanding Mediterranean miniature donkey.