Celeste Johnson is currently the Associate Professor of Oboe at Oklahoma State University. She spends summers at the Bay View Music Festival as an artist-in-residence and faculty member. Ms. Johnson is a member of the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, and performs as a substitute with the Tulsa Opera Orchestra, Tulsa Ballet Orchestra, and Oklahoma City Philharmonic. Previous orchestral engagements include positions with the Sarasota Opera Orchestra, Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra, Champaign-Urbana Symphony, 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 at Carnegie Hall.

Ms. Johnson regularly plays solo recitals and has presented programs at International Double Reed Society Conferences at the University of Oklahoma in 2010 and at Ithaca College in 2007. Awarded the International Double Reed Society Prize at the Barbirolli International Oboe Competition in the Isle of Man, British Isles, she has also been named a semi-finalist in the Concert Artists Guild International Competition in 2004 and 2005. She has performed twice as a finalist of the Fernand Gillet/Hugo Fox International Oboe Competition, competing at International Double Reed Society conferences at both the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and the University of West Virginia. In 2004, she performed as a finalist in the Barnett Foundation Oboe Competition in Chicago, Illinois. While pursuing her bachelor's degree, she won the University of Illinois Concerto Competition and was consequently featured as a soloist with the University Orchestra. She has also performed as a concerto soloist with the Oklahoma State University Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra.

In 2005, Ms. Johnson spent the summer performing exclusively contemporary music under Pierre Boulez at the Lucerne Festival Academy in Switzerland. Previous summers have been spent performing at various music festivals including as a fellowship recipient to both the Aspen Music Festival and Tanglewood Music Center. She has also performed at the Sarasota Music Festival, Kent/Blossom Music Festival, Opera in the Ozarks and the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. While pursuing her master's degree, she toured and performed extensively as a member of the Eastman Chamber Music Society.

An avid clinician, Ms. Johnson has presented master classes at numerous high schools and universities across the country including the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Michigan, North Carolina School of the Arts, University of Iowa, Bowling Green State University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Vanderbilt University, Illinois State University, and the University of Virginia, among others.

In 2007, she was awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Junior Faculty Award for Scholarly Excellence at Oklahoma State University. She continues to serve as Second Vice President of the Midwest Double Reed Society and served as a judge for the International Double Reed Society Young Artist Competition in 2010.

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. Her primary teachers have included Richard Killmer, Nancy Ambrose King, Dan Stolper and Phil Koch.