Christopher Palameta is an

oboist An oboist (formerly hautboist) is a musician who plays the oboe or any oboe family instrument, including the oboe d'amore, cor anglais or English horn, bass oboe and piccolo oboe or oboe musette. The following is a list of notable past and pres ...

specializing in

historically informed performance Historically informed performance (also referred to as period performance, authentic performance, or HIP) is an approach to the performance of Western classical music, classical music, which aims to be faithful to the approach, manner and style of ...

. He is based in Paris. Palameta was born in 1979 in

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, and took his graduate degree from

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in historical oboes. His main teachers were Theodore Baskin, Washington McClain, and Bruce Haynes. He is currently pursuing his PhD at the Royal Academy of Music in London and teaches historical oboes at the Sibelius Academy (Helsinki University of Arts). After being appointed second oboist in the

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra The Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (also known simply as Tafelmusik) is a Canadian Baroque orchestra specializing in early music and based in Toronto. They often perform with choir and play period instruments. The orchestra was founded in 1979 by ob ...

(based in Toronto, Canada), of which he was a core member from 2003-2007, he relocated to France to pursue work with many of Europe's period ensembles including Pygmalion, Les Siècles, and La Grande Ecurie in France; Die Kölner Akademie in Germany; Vox Luminis and La Petite Bande in Belgium; The Gabrieli Consort in the UK; Il Pomo d'Oro in Italy; Capella Cracoviensis in Poland; and various other ensembles such as the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Suomalainen Barokkiorkesteri (the Finnish Baroque Orchestra), and MusicAeterna (Perm, Russia). Palameta has participated in over 40 commercial recordings for the

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Deutsche Harmonia Mundi Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (founded 1958) is a German classical music record label. It was founded by Rudolf Ruby and based in Freiburg, Breisgau. The company was acquired by BMG Music in 1992 and is now part of Sony Music Entertainment. Ruby had Alf ...

, Audax Records, BIS, CPO, Analekta,

ATMA Classique ATMA Classique is a Canadian record label based in Montreal, Quebec. Founded in 1994 by Johanne Goyette, the company has close to 600 titles in its catalogue and distributes in over 25 countries and on the internet. Several recordings released by ...

, and

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labels. In 2003 and 2006, he was awarded research grants from the

Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec The Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) is a public agency founded in 1994 by the government of Quebec. CALQ offers support and funding for art projects in the performing arts, multidisciplinary arts, circus arts, visual arts, med ...

. His chamber recordings have been reviewed positively. In 2009,
Janitsch: Sonate de camera, Volume I
was nominated for a

Prix Opus Prix was an American power pop band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1975 by Tommy Hoehn and Jon Tiven. The group ended up primarily as a studio project. Its recordings were produced by Tiven along with former Big Star member Chris Bell, who a ...

in the category 'Best CD of the Year' by the Conseil québécois de la musique.,http://cqm.qc.ca/docs/Opus/OpusAn13/CQMOpusAn13Finalistes.pdf while his recording of suites for oboe by Marin Marais on the Audax Records label was nominated in 2015 for a Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (German Record Critics' Award).

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* Profile on ATMA Classique https://www.atmaclassique.com/En/Artistes/ArtisteInfo.aspx?ArtisteID=1230 * Notturna http://notturna.ca/contact.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Palameta, Christopher Living people Musicians from Montreal McGill University alumni Canadian oboists Male oboists Year of birth missing (living people)