Dr. Jeanette Zyko

Assistant Professor of Double Reeds

Dr. Jeanette Zyko, an active chamber musician and recitalist, currently resides in Clarksville, Tennessee, where she is the Assistant Professor of Double Reeds at Austin Peay State University and principal oboist of the Gateway Chamber Ensemble.  She received her training at the Hartt School of Music and Butler University and her private teachers have included Humbert Lucarelli, Malcolm Smith, Georg Meerwein, and Stephen Taylor. She has studied bassoon with William Hestand and Dawn Hartley and reedmaking with Gerald Corey. In May 2006, she was the first oboist to receive the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Manhattan School of Music.

Dr. Zyko can be heard on Summit Records with the Gateway Chamber Ensemble and as a soloist with the APSU Wind Ensemble. She has worked with the internationally renowned composer/conductor Pierre Boulez and American composer Lee Hoiby, whose triple concerto, Prayer and Procession, she premiered in 2010. Recent engagements include recitals of oboe and organ music with Dr. Maxine Thévenot in New Mexico and a recital of works for oboe and piano with Wenhan Anderson for the Music at St. Paul’s Concert Series in New York City.

Before relocating to Tennessee in 2008, Dr. Zyko was principal oboe of the New York-based TACTUS Contemporary Ensemble with whom she performed Ursula Mamlok's Oboe Concerto.  She was on faculty at InterSchool Orchestras of New York and Long Island Conservatory and apprenticed as a Teaching Artist with the New York Philharmonic. Previously, Dr. Zyko taught oboe at the University of Costa Rica, where she also edited and supervised the publication of music by Costa Rican composers.  

Email: ZykoJ@apsu.edu