MEET THE ORCHESTRA

Mickenna Keller is the oboe II/English Horn of the Syracuse Orchestra. She received both her Master of Music and Master of Musical Arts from the Yale School of Music, studying with Stephen Taylor. At the University of Michigan, Mickenna received her BM in Oboe Performance, studying under Dr. Nancy Ambrose King. In conjunction with oboe, she completed a minor in History of Art. Working with arts organizations like the Yale University Art Gallery as a Wurtele Gallery Teacher, and the Detroit Civic Youth Ensembles as a mentor, Mickenna works to synthesize her passion for visual and musical art.

In 2022 and 2023 her chamber groups won the Yale Chamber Music Competition. 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.