Nermis Mieses is the Associate Professor of Oboe at Michigan State University and faculty at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival. As a versatile performer of oboe literature from the Baroque period to the 21st century, she has earned accolades at the prestigious Barbirolli International Oboe Competition, the First International Oboe Competition in Santa Catarina, Brazil, the Matthew Ruggiero International Woodwind Competition, and the Ann Arbor Society for Musical Arts Young Artist Competition. 

As part of her research interests, she champions repertoire from the iconic French oboist-composer Gilles Silvestrini, as well as music from underrepresented composers. She is frequently featured in universities, conservatories, chamber music series, and as a performer at the International Double Reed Society conferences. 

Equally dedicated to ensemble playing, she dedicated nine seasons as Principal Oboe of the Michigan Opera Theatre and has collaborated with orchestras such as the Detroit Symphony, Sphinx Symphony, ProMusica Chamber, and the Michigan Philharmonic. Internationally, she has performed with Camerata Colonial in the Dominican Republic, the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, the Thy Chamber Music Festival in Denmark, and the Chineke! Orchestra. 

Previously, she taught at Bowling Green State University, the University of Kentucky, Ohio Northern, and Hillsdale College. She holds D.M.A. and M.M. degrees from the University of Michigan under Dr. Nancy Ambrose King, where she was conferred the 2020 Paul Boyland Alumni Award.

Mieses is a F. Lorée artist.

Albums

Oboe in Hues

Release Date: June 28, 2024
Catalog Number: NV6638
21st Century
Solo Instrumental
Oboe
What do you get when a Puerto Rican-American oboist falls in love with the music of a French oboist-composer? The answer is OBOE IN HUES, on which accomplished oboe virtuoso Nermis Mieses champions rarely-heard compositions for solo oboe by Gilles Silvestrini with astounding empathy and bravado. Silvestrini may hark back to certain traditions by using Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and other Russians as sources of inspiration, but his musical concept is almost non-Western in its focus on exploiting the entire gamut of the instrument. Mieses excels at this challenge. An intriguing exploration of the oboe and all that it is capable of.