Jillian Honn is a freelance oboist and arts administrator based in New York City. She holds principal positions with the Cape Symphony, Pegasus: the Orchestra, and the Lake Placid Sinfonietta. In addition to her previous role as Principal Oboe of the Syracuse Orchestra, Jillian has been a guest performer with the International Contemporary Ensemble, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, among others. 

Jillian is an avid soloist and chamber musician with a passion for new music. As a member of Doubles Duo, she strives to broaden the repertoire of oboe and bass music and foster a curiosity in the wide-ranging abilities of the unique instrument combination through commissions and workshops. She is the Operations Manager for Contemporaneous, a New York based contemporary ensemble, and was formerly a co-founder and president of versicolor, a student-run contemporary ensemble at the Yale School of Music.

In addition to maintaining a private oboe studio, Jillian was formerly an oboe instructor at Wharton School of the Arts in Berkeley Heights, NJ, a Visiting Lecturer in Music at Ithaca College and was on faculty at LeMoyne and Hamilton Colleges. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music (BM, PC, ALP), where she studied with Richard Killmer, Jillian also holds an MM-MMA from Yale University where she studied with Stephen Taylor.