Libby Van Cleve

Libby Van Cleve (born August 22, 1958) is an American oboist and Director of Yale University's Oral History of American Music.

Education and personal life Van Cleve has received the following degrees: Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and Religious Studies from Bowdoin College Master of Fine Arts Degree in Oboe Performance from the California Institute of the Arts Master of Music, Master of Musical Arts, and Doctor of Musical Arts in Oboe Performance from the Yale School of Music She currently resides in Guilford, Connecticut with husband Jack Vees, a composer and bassist, and their daughter Nola.

Oboist Libby Van Cleve has recorded works of composers such as Anthony Braxton, Ingram Marshall, Jack Vees, and Eleanor Hovda on oboe, English horn, and oboe d'amore. Through the 1990s, she also collaborated with the avant-garde and now inactive Nancy Meehan Dance Company many times. Van Cleve currently teaches oboe at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and at Connecticut College in New London, CT. As a more recent project, Van Cleve has released the first three Bach Cello Suites, edited for oboe, through The Music Source, T.D. Ellis Music Publishing.

OHAM Van Cleve began her work at the Oral History of American Music as assistant to the director in 1993 and in 2000, became associate director. Her second book was published in 2005, Composers' Voices From Ives to Ellington, co-written with Vivian Perlis. In 2006, the two co-authors received ASCAP's Deems Taylor Special Recognition Award for their work. In 2010, Libby Van Cleve succeeded Vivian Perlis as Director of the Oral History of American Music project. 2012: The Eleanor Hovda Collection, music by Hovda, Innova Records 2007: Thousand Year Dreaming, by Annea Lockwood, Pogus Records 2001: Dark Waters, music by Ingram Marshall, New Albion 1996: Surf Music Again, music by Jack Vees, CRI