Tampa, Florida native Lauren Murray enjoys an active career as a recitalist, chamber musician, and educator of oboe and English horn. With trumpeter Robert Murray she is co-founder of the duo ‘Harmonie del Sur’; their collaboration has brought their performances around the world and birthed close to twenty new compositions for oboe and trumpet.

Dr. Murray is thrilled to have been recently appointed as the Inaugural Executive Director of the Instructional Performing Arts Center (IPAC) at Pasco Hernando State College. Prior to her time at PHSC, she served as Music Chair at the Straz Center’s Patel Conservatory and taught in higher education for over twenty years. Dr. Murray’s students can be found performing world-wide performing in military bands, Broadway show pit orchestras, and teaching in the public schools.