William Parrish is the principal oboe with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra and Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra as well as a member of the Wintergreen Summer Festival Orchestra. Bill served as the Associate Director of Pre-College at the Juilliard School for ten years and has played with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, and Honolulu Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Parrish received his BFA in oboe from Carnegie-Mellon University, his M.M. from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and an Artist's Diploma in oboe performance from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Bill teaches privately at his home in Waynesboro, VA, and operates a successful custom oboe reed making business.