Mag. Philippe Tondre

Philippe Tondre has been Principal Oboe in the South West Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart since 2008. He also holds the position of Principal Oboe in the Mito Chamber Orchestra and the Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra Matsumoto Japan.

He was born in Mulhouse France in 1989 and entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris at the age of 15, where he studied with David Walter and obtained his Master’s Degree with distinction in 2010.

Philippe is prizewinner of all the major international oboe competitions. In 2008 he won third prize in The Prague Spring International Music Competition as well as the Gustav Mahler Prize for the youngest finalist, awarded by the Mahler Association 2000 Vienna. In 2009 Philippe won first prize in The Fernand Gillet – Hugo Fox Oboe Competition USA and that same year went on to win second prize in The International Oboe Competition Karuizawa Japan, organized by the Sony Music Foundation. In 2010 he was awarded third prize in The 65th Geneva International Music Competition and in 2011 went on to win The 60th ARD International Music Competition Munich with a second prize ( a first prize was not awarded ), as well as the audience prize and the special prize for the best interpretation of Liza Lim’s commissioned composition.

As Principal Oboe Philippe Tondre has played in the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Paris Orchestra, the Radio France Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and the National French Youth Orchestra.

Philippe has also appeared as soloist and chamber musician with leading orchestras such as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Munich, the South West Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, the New Mozart Orchestra London, the Kanzai Philharmonic Orchestra Japan, the Thai Philharmonic Orchestra, the Collegium Musicum Basel Switzerland, the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra.

He has collaborated with artists such as Maurice Bourgue, the Modigliani Quartet, Radek Baborak, the ARD Windquintett, Olga Watts, Jacques Zoon and Georg Friederich Haas. He has worked with such eminent conductors as Seiji Ozawa, Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Neville Marriner, Myung Whun Chung, Neeme Järvi, Herbert Blomstedt, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Marek Janowski, Daniel Harding, Vassily Sinaïsky, Nicolas McGegan and Heinz Holliger and has been invited to give Master-Classes in Germany, Japan, China and Taiwan.

In May 2013 Philippe Tondre performed the German Première of James MacMillan’s Oboe Concerto under the baton of the composer and accompanied by the South West Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart. In September 2013 he played the Japanese Première of György Ligeti’s Double Concerto for Flute, Oboe and Orchestra with Jacques Zoon ( flute ) and the Saito Kinen Festival Orchesra conducted by Kazushi Ono.
In 2012, after his successful debut at the Beethoven Festival Bonn, Philippe Tondre was awarded the prestigious Beethoven Ring Prize.

In December 2012 he appeared playing Marcello’s Oboe Concerto in the “ Stars of Tomorrow ” television programme produced by Arte and hosted by Rolando Villazon, and in June 2013 he made his debut in the Philharmonie in Berlin playing Bohuslav Martinu’s Concerto for Oboe accompanied by the German Symphony Orchestra.

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