Brent Hages

Adjunct Instructor

Oboe and English horn

Brent Hages, oboe and English horn, earned his Bachelor of Music in Oboe Performance at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music where he studied under James B. Caldwell. He pursued graduate work at Temple University where he studied oboe and English horn with Louis Rosenblatt of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Hages also studied privately with Alfred Genovese, solo oboist with the Metropolitan Opera, Cleveland Orchestra, and Boston Symphony, as well as noted oboists John de Lancie, Elden Gatwood, Stevens Hewett, Wayne Rapier, and Laila Storch. Hages has performed with the Northwest Sinfonia Studio Recording Orchestra, the Pacific Northwest Ballet orchestra, the Bellevue Philharmonic, the Northwest Symphonietta, and at the Suncadia Resort Chamber Music Festival. A scholar of the oboe as well as a performer, Hages is currently conducting research on his late mentor James B. Caldwell, as well as the English oboists Janet Craxton and Joy Boughton, and the American oboist and instrument maker William Lym.