Oboist Andrew Nogal is an acclaimed orchestral performer, chamber musician, and interpreter of contemporary music. He is the solo oboist with two Chicago groups that specialize in performing new music: Ensemble Dal Niente and the Grossman Ensemble. In 2011, Nogal was awarded the gold medal in the senior wind division of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. One year later, he became the first and, to date, only oboist ever to receive the Kranichstein Music Prize at the famous Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music. A proud alumnus of the public school band programs in his hometown, Lemont, Illinois, he is also a member of the newly formed Chicago Wind Symphony.

Nogal performs with orchestras across the Midwest, and he can be heard regularly with the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra. He has also appeared at music festivals across the United States. These include performances at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Philadelphia Orchestra Barnes-Stokowski Festival, and the New York Phil Biennial held at the Metropolitan Museum. His recent international engagements include concerts in Tokyo, Beijing, Sydney, Auckland, Berlin, and Vancouver. For three summers, he studied and performed under the direction of Pierre Boulez at the Lucerne Festival Academy in Switzerland. His degrees in Music Performance and Art History come from Northwestern University.

Away from music, his interests include 19th-century and contemporary literature, dogs, train travel, and coffee.