Chantry Nelson, OboE & ENGLISH HORN

From 1979 to 1987, Chantry Nelson played English horn/third oboe and second oboe for Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra. She left Lincoln in 1987 and returned in 1995. She has been a member of the Eugene Opera Orchestra, Oregon Mozart Players, Yaquina Chamber Orchestra, OSU-Corvallis Symphony, North Arkansas Symphony, Oregon State University Quintet, and Quintessenz Woodwind Quintet. Currently, in addition to LSO, Ms. Nelson plays oboe/English horn for the Third Chair Chamber Players and the Lincoln Municipal Band, and is principal oboe for the Hastings Symphony.

Ms. Nelson received her BME from the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville and her MM from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and has studied with Julie Gramolini, Bill McMullen, Fred Korman, Brian Ventura, Bobby Jenkins, Glen Guiles, Robert O'Boyle and Roger Widder. She teaches oboe and bassoon privately and at Doane College and general music at Sacred Heart Elementary/Middle School, Lincoln.