JJ Silvey
JJ Silvey is an oboist, teacher, and scholar deeply invested in the communicative power of music. An alum of The Orchestra Now (TŌN), Bard College’s resident orchestral academy, he has appeared extensively in recordings, radio broadcasts, and live performances throughout the New York area. Recent recording projects with TŌN include the soundtrack to Bradley Cooper’s Oscar-nominated Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro (2023) and Premieres (2025), an album of contemporary violin concertos that features soloist Gil Shaham.
JJ has performed at music festivals across the US, including the Bard Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, and Hidden Valley Festival of Winds, and he toured with the International Chamber Orchestra of Puerto Rico in 2025. In 2014, he was named a winner of the Sewanee Summer Music Festival’s Jacqueline Avent Concerto Competition and performed Handel’s Oboe Concerto in G Minor with the festival orchestra under the direction of Rossen Milanov.
JJ serves on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music Pre-College and has taught at Interlochen Arts Camp since 2023. An in-demand instructor and clinician of oboe reed making, he has presented reed classes at the University of Tennessee, Interlochen Center for the Arts, and The Juilliard School’s Pre-College division. Currently a C. V. Starr Doctoral Fellow at Juilliard, he holds a master’s degree from the Mannes School of Music and dual bachelor’s degrees from Indiana University in Oboe Performance and Law and Public Policy. He is grateful to his teachers, Elaine Douvas and Linda Strommen.
As part of his fellowship with Ensemble Connect, JJ teaches at Midwood High School in Brooklyn.
