Celeste Johnson is currently the Assistant Professor of Oboe at Oklahoma State University. Ms. Johnson holds a Master of Music degree in Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In Oklahoma, Ms. Johnson regularly performs with ensembles such as the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the Tulsa Opera, and the Signature Symphony. Before moving to Stillwater, she held a position with the Sarasota Opera Orchestra in Florida. Additional previous orchestra engagements include the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra, the Champaign-Urbana Symphony, the Quad Cities Symphony and Sinfonia da Camera. She has also performed as guest principal oboist with the Russian String Orchestra and served as Principal Oboe for the New York String Orchestra with performances in Carnegie Hall.

Ms. Johnson regularly plays solo recitals, and has been a finalist for numerous national and international competitions. Named a Semi-Finalist in the prestigious Concert Artists Guild International Competition in 2005, she has also twice been named a finalist in the Fernand Gillet/Hugo Fox International Oboe Competition competing at International Double Reed Society conferences in both North Carolina (2003) and West Virginia (2001). In 2004, she performed as one of three finalists for the Barnett Foundation Oboe Competition in Chicago, Illinois. Ms. Johnson also won the University of Illinois Concerto Competition in 2002.

During the summer of 2005, Celeste performed under Pierre Boulez at the Lucerne Contemporary Music Festival in Switzerland. She has spent previous summers performing at various other music festivals including the Tanglewood Music Center where she was the recipient of the Augustus Thorndike/Abe and Irene Pollin Fellowship. While at Tanglewood, she performed the American premier of two recently discovered movements of the Prokofiev Quintet and is featured on a compact disc commemorating the tenth anniversary of Seiji Ozawa Hall. She has toured to New York City with the Eastman Chamber Music Society and performed additional chamber music at the Sarasota and Kent/Blossom music festivals. Ms. Johnson's primary teachers have included Richard Killmer, Nancy Ambrose-King, Dan Stolper, John Mack and Phil Koch. She has also done additional study and master classes with John Ferrillo, Mark McEwen and Robert Sheena of the Boston Symphony Orchestra!

Celeste Johnson has given master classes at clinics at the University of Georgia and throughout Oklahoma and Texas. While living in Rochester, New York, she was on faculty at Roberts Wesleyan College and Music Horizons, the Eastman School of Music high school preparatory program.