T. Herman Keahey (oboist/musicologist) and Delores J. Keahey (pianist/musicologist) both received training at the Yale School of Music and the University of Texas at Austin. They spent the next four decades involved with every level of university life, including two lengthy stays at the University of Calgary and the University of Manitoba. During this time they won numerous awards and published a number of prestigious publications.

After retiring in the early years of the present century, they founded Classical Winds Press, with an initial focus on masterworks for the oboe that have been too much ignored in recent years, and they continue to methodically publish works that they have noted on a dauntingly long list. Although they have performed actively throughout their professional life, performance at this point is reserved for their work as “patient instructors”, training students of the U of A Medical Faculty.

The Drs. Keahey reside in Tucson, Arizona. They have four widely scattered children and seven grandchildren, and they travel whenever Delores can tear Herman away from his Macintosh computer.

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photo November 2009, photoshopped by T. Alan Keahey