My oboe chamber music repertoire list is part of a larger, general oboe information resource I am developing for my students. Traditionally, professors recommend dozens of external resources for students to consult with outside of studio class or private lessons. While I still greatly value and recommend those materials to students, the landscape of higher education has changed significantly since many professors were students. Today’s students often balance full-time study with multiple jobs in order to afford rising tuition and living costs, leaving them limited time to navigate external sources that can sometimes present conflicting information.

To meet students where they are in an innovative way, I organized this resource as a Google Doc with multiple document tabs containing materials I have developed through my studies with John Dee and Martin Schuring, along with my own trial-and-error experience. Topics include reed making, instrument care, commissioning new works, the college admissions process for community college transfer students, efficient practice strategies, and relevant to ACMP, repertoire lists. The goal is to provide students with the most important information I want them to take away from studying with me while also sharing the same external sources recommended to me when I was a student. This Google Doc is primarily shared within my studio at Glendale Community College (GCC), though I plan to add some relevant topics to my website for my younger students outside of GCC and K-12 music educators to reference.

The Google Doc’s structure is loosely modeled on the website of my former teacher, Martin Schuring, from whom I received the majority of the repertoire lists while taking his oboe and chamber music repertoire class in graduate school. He provided eleven different Word documents to his students that I have since compiled into one solo repertoire list and one chamber music repertoire list, updated entries, and expanded to include living composers with their website links. Martin did the majority of the work for the chamber music repertoire list, I just put it all in one place! 

EXPLORE THE CHAMBER MUSIC FOR OBOE REPERTOIRE LIST

Notes from ACMP on using Kelsey’s list: The list has an excellent table of contents, organized by country and style/time period. All the the headings in the table of contents are hyperlinks, so you can simply click on a topic and the PDF will automatically jump to that page. To get back to the top, just click on the URL at the bottom of each page (just to the right of the copyright). On the top left corner above the PDF there is a search symbol (the little magnifying glass.) I tried using it to search for instrumentation. If you type in the full name of an instrument (such as viola, for example), it will only find instances where the whole word is included in the title. If you type in the abbreviation “va” it will show everything including those two letters in succession (such as “Giovanni.” But, you can enter “va” and click the box for “Whole Word” and only the pieces where the abbreviation “va” is listed as part of the instrumentation will show up. I found 62 pieces including viola. It will start by highlighting number 1 of 62. Click the little arrow forward (just to the right of the search field) to scroll through all of them. 62 pieces for oboe with viola – that’s exciting!

About Kelsey Maes

Dr. Kelsey Maes is an oboist, music educator, and higher education professional based in Arizona. She teaches oboe at Glendale Community College, and works as a Format and Curriculum Advisor in the Graduate College at Arizona State University (ASU).

Dr. Maes has performed with a wide variety of chamber ensembles, ranging from reed quintet and oboe trios, to mixed instrument groups. She competed at the 2023 Coltman Chamber Music Competition and Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. 

As one of the recipients of the International Double Reed Society (IDRS) 50 for 50 Commissioning Grants, Dr. Maes is slated to premiere a new and innovative work for oboe at the 2026 IDRS Conference, TK_X-2 by José Eduardo Orea Domínguez for oboe, live electronics, and virtual reality. She is the principal oboist of the Gilbert Symphony, has subbed with orchestras across the country, and is an active freelance musician in the Phoenix area.

Dr. Maes is also an active scholar. She regularly presents at IDRS Conferences, serves as the IDRS Social Media Content Coordinator and as a member of the IDRS Chamber Music Committee, and has been published in The Double Reed. Selected via peer-review, her DMA abstract was selected for publication in the Leonardo Graduate Abstracts database, an international database showcasing topics in arts, sciences, and technology. She is also a member of CMS and SMT.

Dr. Maes holds a DMA, Music Theory Pedagogy Certificate, and MM from ASU, along with a BM from the University of Illinois. She studied oboe with Martin Schuring and John Dee, and plays on a standard Lorée AK oboe and a Lorée English horn with an Etoile bocal.