Gunter Sieberth (born in 1965) is a German

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 ...

Life

Sieberth comes from

Meiningen Meiningen () is a town in the southern part of the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in the region of Franconia and has a population of around 25,000 (2021).

in Thuringia. From 1978 to 1983 he attended the in Weimar. Afterwards he studied at the

Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar The University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar (in German: Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar) is an institution of music in Weimar, Germany. The Hochschule Franz Liszt, who spent a great deal of his life in Weimar, encouraged the founding of ...

with Axel Schmidt, solo English horn player in the

MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra The MDR-Sinfonieorchester (in English, MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra) is a German radio orchestra based in Leipzig. It is the radio orchestra of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, the public broadcaster for the German states of Thuringia, Saxony a ...

. Already during his studies Sieberth was a substitute at the

Staatskapelle Weimar The (DNT) is a German theatre and musical organisation based in Weimar. It is a twin institution, consisting of the theatrical (German National Theatre, now solely based in Weimar) and the symphony orchestra known as the . It has a total of s ...

, in 1988 he graduated with a diploma. Since then he has been 1st solo oboist of the Jena Philharmonic. He is also a lecturer for oboe at the Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere (Weimar) and in the

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es of the tätig. As a chamber musician he worked with the harpist Volker Sellmann and performed with the chamber orchestra

Ludwig Güttler Ludwig Güttler (born 13 June 1943) is an internationally known German virtuoso on the Baroque trumpet, the piccolo trumpet and the corno da caccia. As a conductor, he founded several ensembles including the chamber orchestra Virtuosi Saxoniae. H ...

. He is also a member of the wind quintet of the Jena Philharmonic. In 2008 he founded the Trio Saphiro together with the Frankfurt harpist Bettina Linck and the Meiningen concert soprano Anna Gann.

Discography

* 2000: Orgeln in Thüringen – Jena, Volkshaus (Parzifal-Verlag) * 2004: Oboe & Harfe / Gunter Sieberth & Volker Sellmann (Christophorus)

External links

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Gunter Sieberth auf der Seite der Jenaer Philharmonie
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sieberth, Gunter German classical oboists 1965 births Living people People from Meiningen