Setsuko Otake

Throughout the U.. and Japan, she has presented numerous chamber music recitals
with various woodwind quintet and trio groups-including the 2002 recital debut at the Carnegie Weil Recital Hall. She currently holds the second oboe/ English Horn position with the Riverside Symphonia in Lambertville, New Jersey. As a freelance oboist, regularly appeared with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, New Jersey Festival Orchestra, and Queens Symphony.

On Broadway, frequently appeared S as a substitute member including Miss Saigon, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, On the Town, Les Miserables, Porgy and Bess, and Mary Poppins to name a few. Most recently she was the oboist for the Grammy nominated The Public Theater production of Soft Power.

She received her bachelor’s degree from the Toho Gakuen School of Music, and her master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with former New York Philharmonic oboist Joseph Robinson. During the summer, she is oboe and chamber music coach at the Summerkeys. Ms. Otake is also the oboe teacher at the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn,Rodeph Sholom School, and from 2021 at The Dalton School in Manhattan.