OBOIST
REBECCA VAN DE VEN

Music has the power to transport us to another time and place. Rebecca Van de Ven loves to harness that power with a broad audience of fellow music lovers and passionate musicians alike. Ever since a young age, Rebecca has found great joy and satisfaction in making music and sharing it with audiences everywhere.

Rebecca Van de Ven joined the faculty at Belmont University in 2018.  In addition to teaching, she is active with the faculty quintet performing frequent chamber recitals throughout the southeast area of the United States.  Prior to Belmont, Ms. Van de Ven taught at Middle Tennessee State University, University of the South, Tennessee State University, and Albion College.

Ms. Van de Ven frequently performs and records in Nashville.  She currently holds the position of  second oboe in the Nashville Opera and the Chattanooga Bach Choir.  She can be heard playing English Horn on season three of the Emmy winning hit TV series Fargo as well as the 2016 Evanescence Album.  Her orchestral engagements have included orchestras such as Nashville Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony and Grand Rapids Symphony.  She can also be found playing regionally in Chattanooga and Huntsville Symphonies and in staged works at Tennessee Performing Arts Center. 

On a full tuition scholarship, Ms. Van de Ven received a Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory in oboe performance where she was a student of Eugene Izotov, current Principal Oboe of the San Francisco Symphony. She attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison on tuition scholarship where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Science degree.  She was a student of Professor Marc Fink.  Ms. Van de Ven attended the Pierre Monteux Music Festival in Maine and was awarded a full scholarship to the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California.  She currently resides in Sewanee Tennessee with her husband and 2 children.