Céline Moinet

Céline Moinet brings an extraordinary variety of tone colours and timbres to the art of oboe playing. Her international career has allowed her to perform as a soloist with the Staatskapelle Dresden, Prag Philharmonia, New Japan Philharmonic, Berliner Symphoniker, among others. She has toured throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America performing in the most prestigious concert halls in the world such as Festspielhaus Salzburg, Wiener Konzerthaus, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Wigmore Hall London, Semperoper Dresden and Gewandhaus Leipzig. Céline Moinet was born in Lille in 1984 in northern France. She began playing oboe at the age of seven and ten years later she enrolled at the Conservatoire de Paris studying oboe with David Walter and chamber music with Maurice Bourgue. Her early career contains the experience of playing in the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester under the direction of Claudio Abbado, as well as with the Nationaltheate-Orchester in Mannheim, where she was appointed Principal Oboe in 2006. At the age of 23, she became the principal oboist of the Staatskapelle Dresden, a coveted position that marked a turning point in her career. Since then, she has performed under the direction of esteemed conductors such as Christian Thielemann, Zubin Mehta, Claudio Abbado, Daniele Gatti and Andris Nelsons, while also being a regular guest with renowned orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Gewandhaus Orchestra, among others.