Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble

Lisa Harvey-Reed is the Principal Oboist of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic as well as long-time Principal Oboist of the Lawton Philharmonic.  Statewide, she has also performed with the Tulsa Symphony, as Principal Oboist with the Enid Symphony, and as a member of the Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble of Oklahoma City.  She is an active freelance musician in the Oklahoma City area. 

Lisa has served as Principal Oboist with the Utica Symphony and in the “new music” ensemble “sfz”, and she was the oboist in the Minnesota Wind Soloists quintet.  She has also performed with the Evansville Philharmonic.  Summer festival performances include Sommerfest in her native Minnesota, the New Hampshire Music Festival, and the prestigious Festival of Two Worlds in Charleston, SC and Spoleto, Italy.  Since 2014, she has performed annually with the chamber ensemble at the Assisi Performing Arts Festival in Assisi, Italy. 

Lisa served as Instructor of Oboe at the Oklahoma City University Wanda L. Bass School of Music for over 30 years until her retirement in 2017.  She previously taught at the MacPhail Center for the Arts, a satellite school for the University of Minnesota.

Lisa received a Bachelor of Music in Oboe Performance at Indiana University, where she studied with the late Jerry Sirucek, formerly of the Chicago Symphony.   She completed a Master of Music in Oboe Performance at the University of Oklahoma, and she has also studied with the late Carl Holub, formerly of the Minnesota Orchestra.  She lives in Norman with her husband, bassoonist Larry Reed.