Gretchen Morse is originally from Webster, New York and came to Michigan in 1989 to study with Daniel Stolpher at Michigan State University, where she completed both the Master and Doctoral degrees. Dr. Morse is an active teacher and performer throughout Michigan. She is currently teaching through MSU's Community Music School, and has also taught at Olivet, Aquinas and Spring Arbor Colleges. She has been a guest performer/lecturer at Western Carolina University, and Eastern Washington University. Dr. Morse is Principal Oboist with the Jackson Symphony, and Second Oboist and English Hornist with the Greater Lansing Symphony. She has also been a member of the Westshore and Midland Symphony Orchestras, and has subbed with many of the other orchestras throughout Michigan. In 1993, she toured with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra. Outside of making reeds that play, Gretchen's greatest accomplishment was climbing a mountain in the Continental Divide - and, of course, coming back down.