Visiting Artist Update! BSO's Keisuke Wakao, Oboe

NYSMF is proud to announce another Keisuke within our ranks! Oboist Keisuke Wakao will be joining NYSMF's ranks of Visiting Artists, and he will certainly be surprised when he arrives and finds that everyone knows how to pronounce his name. Here is his biographical information:

Keisuke Wakao is assistant principal oboe with the BSO. He has been principal oboe with the New World Symphony and substitute oboe with the New York Philharmonic. He was soloist with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra with Joseph Robinson under Kazuyoshi Akiyama and chamber soloist with the New Japan Philharmonic under Seiji Ozawa. In 1990, he performed the Mozart oboe concerto under Michael Tilson Thomas in Europe. Wakao was a finalist in the Lucarelli International Oboe Competition.

Diploma, Manhattan School of Music. Oboe with Joseph Robinson. Studies with Alfred Genovese, Ralph Gomberg at the Tanglewood Music Center. Studies with John Mack, Peter Bowman, and Eric Barr. Recordings on Denon. Also faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and Keisuke Wakao Oboe Camp, Tokyo.

Oboists, rejoice!

UPDATE: Thanks to NYSMF classical bass faculty person Bret Simner for notifying me that I butchered the spelling of "oboist". Bret has been promoted to Chief SpellChecker of NYSMF for his diligence, while I have been slapped around with an old oboe reed for my typo. Thanks Bret!