Hansjörg Schellenberger 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 ...

and conductor born in 1948. He won the first prize at the German

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Competition with seventeen, which led to a scholarship enabling him to further his education at

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(Michigan, USA). He continued his studies in Munich with Manfred Clement and he attended

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es with

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. During this period he took part in numerous concerts, many of them dedicated to contemporary music, and obtained prizes in several international competitions, among them, second prize in the

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in Munich. In the seventies he was soloist of the Cologne Radio Orchestra and from 1980-2001 of the

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. Between 1980 and 2001 he has played under conductors such as Karajan, Leinsdorf, Giulini, Muti, Mehta and Abbado. He has dedicated a great part of his artistic activity to

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with groups such as the Wind Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna-Berlin Ensemble. From 1981 to 1991 he taught at the Berlin Music Academy. He has also been Guest Professor at the Chigiana Academy in Sienna, Italy and participated with his master classes in the Magister Musicae project. Currently he is principal professor of oboe at the

Reina Sofía School of Music The Reina Sofía School of Music (Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Spanish) is a private music school founded in Madrid, Spain, in 1991 by Paloma O'Shea. It belongs to the Albéniz Foundation, and it bears the name of its Honorary Pr ...

in Madrid. In 1991 Schellenberger founded the Berliner-Hadyn-Konzerte cycle, which he continues to conduct himself. He has recorded Beethoven's and Mozart's Piano and Wind Quintets and Poulenc's Trio for piano, oboe and bassoon with J. Levine and M. Turkovic. From the 2021/22 season, Hansjörg Schellenberger will be chief conductor and artistic director of the

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External links

Official WebSite: www.hansjoerg-schellenberger.de
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schellenberger, Hansjorg German classical oboists Male oboists German male conductors (music) German music educators 1948 births Living people Interlochen Center for the Arts alumni Academic staff of the Reina Sofía School of Music Grammy Award winners Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Players of the Berlin Philharmonic 21st-century German conductors (music) 21st-century German male musicians