William Wielgus was a member of the oboe section of the National Symphony Orchestra from 1990 to 2017. Prior to his appointment with the NSO, he served as Principal Oboe of the South Bend Symphony and English horn with the Oklahoma Symphony. He is presently on the oboe faculty at American University, where he is Musician-in-Residence and has taught at West Virginia University and St. Mary’s College. He has also appeared at many major summer music festivals including Aspen, Tanglewood, and Spoleto, and was the winner of the 1990 Aspen Woodwind Soloist Competition.
He is actively involved in a project to research, commission, perform, and record Peruvian oboe music and has presented recitals at the conservatories of Lima, Trujillo, and Ayacucho. In 2018 he was invited to present a recital and master class at the Uzbekistan National Conservatory and has appeared as soloist with the Banda Nacional de Cuba, theTrujillo Symphony Orchestra and the Barra Mansa Symphony