Melinda Maxwell (born 1953 in London) is an English oboist and composer. She is principal oboist of the ensemble Endymion and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, and a regularly principal of the London Sinfonietta. She has been an academic teacher at the Royal Academy of Music, Birmingham Conservatoire, Trinity College and the Royal Northern College of Music. Compositions Pibroch for solo oboe and drone (1981) Transformations for soprano and chamber ensemble (1990) Endless Chain for oboe, saxophone and percussion (1992) Elegy for oboe and piano (1994) Three movements for solo clarinet (1994) Pelagos for string trio (1995) From Tree to Tree for string sextet (1998) Songlines and Cadences for clarinet and harp (1999) Song for Sidney for solo oboe and two echo oboes (2001) Crane Dance for double-reed ensemble (2008) Singla Rock for mixed quintet (2009) References 20th-century classical composers 21st-century classical composers Women classical composers English classical composers 1953 births British classical oboists Women oboists Living people 20th-century English composers 20th-century English women musicians 21st-century English women musicians 20th-century women composers 21st-century women composers