Nathan Hughes

Nathan Hughes is the principal oboe of the Minnesota Orchestra and previously held the same position with the Metropolitan Opera and the Seattle Symphony. Hughes has recorded, toured and made guest appearances as principal oboe with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra and San Francisco Symphony. In addition to being a distinguished artist-in-residence at Lynn University, Hughes is also on the faculty at The Juilliard School. His students have earned significant positions in numerous major symphony orchestras.

An avid chamber musician, Hughes has performed with the Chamber Music Societies in Philadelphia, La Jolla, Seattle and Brooklyn, and ChamberFest Cleveland and Chamber Music Pittsburgh. In addition, he has made appearances at many festivals, including Aspen, Bridgehampton, Lucerne, Marlboro, Salzburg, Santa Fe, Sarasota, Spoleto and Tanglewood. He has received critical acclaim for his performances as a concerto soloist with the MET Chamber Ensemble at Carnegie Hall, Minnesota Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra, La Jolla SummerFest Chamber Orchestra and Verbier Festival Orchestra.

Hughes has earned degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and The Juilliard School. He has presented master classes at the Curtis and Cleveland Institutes, New World Symphony, Eastman, Oberlin, and Indiana University, as well as internationally at the Munich Hochschule in Germany, National University in Korea, Stockholm Royal College of Music in Sweden, Toronto Royal Conservatory in Canada, Pacific Music Festival in Japan and Verbier Festival in Switzerland.