Hailed by the NY Times for her “magnificently sweet tone” oboist Keve Wilson skipped math as a kid to practice Irish jigs and reels instead. Having performed everywhere from Argentina to New Zealand, Keve recently recreated the Mitch Miller oboe solos from Charlie Parker with Strings at Birdland, as well as with Jazz at Lincoln Center and on Arbors Records with Ken Peplowski. She has played in the orchestras for 21 Broadway shows, including Sondheim’s final show Here We Are at The Shed in NYC, Company, Carousel with Renee Fleming, and the 2014 Tony Winner A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. Keve performed the Bach Double Concerto for oboe and violin with celebrated violinist Eugene Drucker to ring in the New Year in 2023 and in 2024 played the New York premiere of Ruth Gipps’s Oboe Concerto. Keve spends each summer as solo english horn of Festival PAAX in Mexico, conducted by Alondra De La Parra and as oboe faculty at the Mostly Modern Festival in Saratoga Springs, NY. She has recorded for Bruce Springsteen, Michael Deleo and Miguel Zenon, and has a YouTube channel where she showcases all of the pop songs using oboe and english horn. Keve inspires band and orchestra students from around the country with her original show From the Band Room to Broadway. and has given her career class to over a dozen universities. While living in Los Angeles, she premiered Peter Schickele’s oboe quartet After Hearing Bach and was the 2nd oboist of Opera Pacific for 6 years. A winner of Concert Artists Guild and graduate of Eastman School of Music, Keve is on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music.

Music festivals include Newport Jazz Festival, New Zealand Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Bremen Music Fest, Mostly Mozart Festival in San Luis Obispo, Swannanoa Chamber Music, The Tanglewood Music Center, Juneau Jazz and Classics and many others. She has performed as principal oboist with many ensembles, including American Sinfonietta, Alarm Will Sound, Absolute Ensemble, American Modern Ensemble, On-Site Opera, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, and San Diego Symphony. Keve has two albums on the NAXOS label: Pure Imagination and The Catskill Sessions, both of which can be found on all streaming services.

From Hyde Park, NY and a graduate of Eastman School of Music, Keve studied oboe with Richard Killmer, piano with Judith Handman and dance with Elizabeth Clark. She lives in New York City with her husband Kerry and Portuguese water dog Bugsy.

NYC Projects

Keve has performed as a member of Encores!, the American Modern Ensemble, Bridge Arts Ensemble, Concerts in Motion, On-Site Opera, and many other organizations. She can be heard on tour around the world with the Grammy Nominated Absolute Ensemble.

Rachel & Keve

The Catskill Sessions

Released on CCR/NAXOS

Available on all streaming platforms

featuring: HIdayat Honari-guitar, Marc Schmied-bass, Mike Ramsey, drums

“Seeing them perform is a total battery recharge. The joy they find in playing with each other and re-inventing/re-creating music that most of us have long taken for granted is so inspiring." 

-Shelagh Abate

Broadway

Keve recently wrapped up production on Broadway in the Skypit of Company by Stephen Sondheim. She was the oboist in the 2018 Broadway revival of Carousel at the Imperial Theater as well as the TONY Award winner for Best Musical, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder in 2014.