https://www.alisonteale.com/

 

Alison Teale is a former student of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, having studied oboe with Nicholas Daniel and Helena Gaunt, and Cor Anglais with Jane Marshall.

 

Graduating with a BMus(Hons) 1st class degree at 22, she immediately took the position of Co-Principal Oboe with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. During her time there she won the highly acclaimed International Isle of Wight Oboe Competition (now the Isle of Man competition) and gave her London solo debut at the Purcell Room.

 

On her return to the UK, she became Principal Cor Anglais with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, moving to the same position a few years later with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, which she now considers her “home”.

 

Alison’s other passion is education, taking up the role of Oboe Professor at Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 2010. Her interest in student education led her to complete a PG Cert in Performance Teaching, and she was awarded a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy as a recognition of her teaching excellence.

 

She travels the world in her orchestral position and acts as ambassador for Lorée, giving masterclasses and recitals, her latest visits being to Malaga, Florida in which she opened the concert for the International Double Reed Conference in 2019, and to China.

 

She is also in demand as guest player for many of the other leading orchestras.

 

Alison can be heard in numerous orchestral concert recordings, on both cor and oboe, motion picture soundtracks and makes regular TV appearances within the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

 

She is no stranger to BBC Radio 3, taking part in pre-concert debates, presenting an episode of Inside Music in August 2019. She also recorded at home during lockdown The Garden of Love by Jacob TV, as an oboe solo, which was aired on the New Music programme, and is currently available to view on the BBC Symphony Orchestra website.

 

 

 

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Johannes Grosso has been a solo oboist with the Frankfurt Opern-und Museumsorchester since 2015, after spending four years as deputy solo oboist with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France. He also plays with the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Johannes Grosso won 1st Prize at the Prague Spring in May 2014, and various other prizes at a number of international competitions. This success enabled him to appear as a soloist with famous conductors including Christoph von Dohnányi and Daniele Gatti, and orchestras including the Czech Radio Orchestra, Prague Chamber Orchestra, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra and New Bach Collegium. He appears regularly with great European orchestras such as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, hr(Hessen Radio)-Sinfonieorchester, Bamberg Symphony and the Bayerische Staatsorchester. He was invited to play with the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra in the summer of 2017. He holds regular masterclasses and teaches at various music academies. He became a professor at the Norwegian Music Academy in Oslo in 2018.