Ashleen Atchue is a student at University of Missouri Kansas City, studying music performance. She studies oboe with Celeste Johnson. At UMKC she plays oboe and English horn in the Wind Symphony, Orchestra and Opera.
As a performer Ashleen has traveled to Italy with the Fort Worth Youth Orchestra as principal oboist. Ashleen has performed solo recitals both her freshman and junior years of college. She interned at Bocal Majority Double Reed Camp, where she helped teach chamber ensembles, reed class, and performed chamber music for the students with other faculty. She has been featured as a concerto soloist performing the Marcello Concerto in C Minor with the Stillwater Youth Orchestra. She has been in two chamber ensembles at UMKC, both were trios. One was an oboe, flute, piano trio, and the other was oboe, bassoon, and piano. She won the third-place prize at the Missouri Double Reed Society young artist competition. The summer of 2016 she performed at the Opera Maya Music Festival, and this summer attended the Bayview Music Festival.
Ashleen has worked with many wonderful oboists in masterclass settings including Richard Killmer from Eastman School of Music, Dwight Parry from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Amy Anderson from Texas Tech, Dan Schwartz from University of Oklahoma, Nancy Ambrose King from the University of Michigan, and Sara Fraker form the University of Arizona.