Keisuke Wakao

Education and Training

Diploma from Manhattan School of Music. Studies with Joseph Robinson, John Mack, Peter Bowman, and Eric Barr. Studies with Alfred Genovese, Ralph Gomberg at the Tanglewood Music Center.

Awards and Recognition

John Williams Oboe Concerto dedicated to Wakao

Principal Oboe, New World Symphony

Finalist, Lucarelli International Oboe Competition

Collaborations

Director, the Daikanyama Hillside Terrace Music Festival in Tokyo Founder, Church of the Redeemer Concert Series in Chestnut Hill Director, the Ventfort Hall Summer Chamber Music Concert Series in Lenox Pianist Christoph Eschenbach

Keisuke Wakao

Division: College

Department: Woodwinds

Instrument: Oboe

Keisuke Wakao is assistant principal oboe with the BSO, where he occupies the Farla and Harvey Chet Krentzman chair. 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.

Recordings on Denon. Also faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and Keisuke Wakao Oboe Camp, Tokyo.

Photo by Marco Borggreve/courtesy BSO

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