Basil Reeve

BASIL REEVE, OBOE

Retired Principal Oboe of the Minnesota Orchestra, Basil Reeve, a native New Yorker, was Principal Oboe of The New York City Opera Orchestra in the late 1960s before becoming Principal Oboe of The Rotterdam Philharmonic in the1970-71 season and subsequently joining The Minnesota Orchestra in 1971. In his forty-one seasons, Basil has performed most of the major oboe repertoire, ranging from concertos by Telemann and J.S. Bach to those of Strauss, Vaughan Williams and Henze. In March 2009, he and the orchestra premiered the Christopher Rouse Oboe Concerto. Basil has also performed in virtually every Minnesota Orchestra Sommerfest and winter season chamber series during his tenure. He served for 37 years as co-artistic director of the long-standing Twin Cities group the Musical Offering chamber ensemble. Basil maintains a private teaching studio in his Minnetonka home.