Sydney Symphony Orchestra oboist Shefali Pryor will run in the New York City Marathon for Médecins Sans Frontières.

Sydney Symphony principal oboist Shefali Pryor is running in the New York City Marathon on November 6 to raise money for Médecins San Frontières. This Sunday afternoon, she and several SSO colleagues give a concert of chamber music for winds and strings to help send her on her way to New York. She tells Limelight about marathon-running and the charity concert:

If you’d told me ten years ago that I’d be running marathons, I would have just laughed.  Though I’d been running in fits and starts since I was a student, I was never especially athletic growing up.  It was only when a friend convinced me to train for my first half marathon in 2011 that I started running properly and it took me by surprise, I loved it!  Since then, it’s become a part of my routine and I really rely on it as a form of stress relief – it’s the perfect way to deal with pre-concert nerves. Last year, I ran my first marathon in Wellington and although I’d trained really well, it was a bit of a shock how...