Keisuke
Wakao
Oboe
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.