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Mickenna Keller is the oboe II/English horn of the Syracuse Orchestra. She received both a master of music degree and master of musical arts degree from the Yale School of Music, studying with Stephen Taylor. At the University of Michigan, Keller received a B.M. in oboe performance, studying under Nancy Ambrose King. In conjunction with oboe, she completed a minor in history of art.
Working with arts organizations such as the Yale University Art Gallery as a Wurtele Gallery teacher and the Detroit Civic Youth Ensembles as a mentor, Keller works to synthesize her passion for visual and musical art.
Her chamber groups won the Yale Chamber Music Competition in 2022 and 2023. She has been invited to give performance talks at both the New Haven Chamber Orchestra and John Walsh Lecture Series.
In 2023, she studied, interpreted and performed Navajo artist and composer Raven Chacon’s “For Zitkála Ša” at the 10th anniversary of the Native American Cultural Center at Yale. She acknowledges with respect that Syracuse is the ancestral homeland to the Haudenosaunee and thanks them for stewarding this land.
Education
- M.M., M.M.A., Yale University
- B.M., University of Michigan