Hailed by the New York Times for her “magnificently sweet tone”, oboist Keve Wilson released her debut album Pure Imagination on the CCR/Naxos label in January 2011. A past winner of Concert Artists Guild, Keve is solo oboist with Kristjan Jarvi’s Absolute Ensemble and can be heard on the group’s numerous albums, including the Grammy nominated Absolute Mix. With the Absolute Ensemble, she has traveled to Estonia, Germany, Austria, New Zealand, Greece, London, Amsterdam at the Concertgebouw, and Finland. In New York in 2011, Keve performed with Jazz at Lincoln Center as part of the re-creation of Bird with Strings as solo oboist, played at the famed Newport Jazz Festival with Miguel Zenon, and performed as a member of the Wind Soloists of New York on a West Coast Tour. She also performed as principal oboist with Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas in New York and Mexico and recorded on the Sony released CD, Travieso CarmisÃ. Keve premiered “After Hearing Bach” for oboe and strings by Peter Schickele, won a coveted position with Opera Pacific, and co-founded the innovative chamber music series “Project Accidental” while living in Los Angeles for six years. A fellow at the Tanglewood Institute, she has performed at many summer festivals, including Chamber Music Northwest, Bremen MusicFest, Savannah Onstage, Juneau Jazz and Classics, and New Zealand International Arts Festival. Keve has toured extensively with Meliora Winds and Quintet of the Americas, and taught master-classes at Northwestern University, Eastman School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, University of Southern Utah, and the Chautauqua Institute. Radio appearances include NPR’s Performance Today, WQXR, and A Couple of Musicians, a weekly radio show she and her husband hosted and produced on Mountain Public Radio.
Keve currently teaches at the Diller-Quaile School and the 92nd Street Y. Past teaching engagements include the Pasadena Conservatory, the Heart of Los Angeles Foundation (HOLA), the Henry Mancini Institute, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Caramoor Center, the Chamber Music Conference, and the American Festival for the Arts in Houston and Argentina. She has also performed in hundreds of public schools across New York City and Los Angeles.
Originally from Hyde Park, New York, Keve graduated from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied oboe with Richard Killmer, piano with Patricia Arden, and dance with Elizabeth Clark. She resides in her favorite city of New York with her husband and two Portuguese water dogs. Keve is represented by Baird Artists Management.
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