Arrignon Daniel
Cismondi Nora
Cooper Peter
Crocquenoy Michel
Deutsch Nick
di Cioccio, Paolo
Doise Olivier
Fillon Jean-Luc
Gattet Alexandre
Grenat Bertrand
Grindel Christophe
Hirota Tomoyuki
Kim Hag Young
Kobayashi Yu
Leleux, François
Lencses Lajos
Lombardi Marika
Merville François
Octuor Paris-Bastille
Ortega Ramón
Romano Carlo
Saumon Pascal
Schilli Stefan
Tondre Philipp
Varcol Liviu
Vogel Allan
Walter David
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oboe 2001

David Walter
Marigaux oboe 2001

Born in Paris in 1958, David Walter has pursued an original career: after obtaining First Prize in oboe and chamber music at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris (Paris Conservatoire), he quickly gained recognition outside of France by winning five international prizes one after the other in Ancona, Prague, Munich, Belgrade and Geneva. Despite this impressive record, he did not choose to pursue a solo career and has preferred to focus on chamber music and teaching, which he deems richer in human values.

His chamber music activities include first and foremost playing with the Quintette Moragues, of which he is a founding member (1980) : together they have won the Grand Prize of the Nouvelle Académie du Disque and were nominated for the first Victoires de la Musique Classique. His other partners include S. Richter, C. Zacharias, M. Dalberto, P. Rogé, A. Planès, G. Nicolic, M.A. Nicolas, C.M. Le Guay, Yuki Nakajima, Nicolas Angelich and the Sine Nomine, Endellion, Manfred and Parisii string quartets. He played as a soloist with the Guildhall String Orchestra, The Sofia Soloists, l'Orchestre d'Auvergne, l'Orchestre de Chambre de Toulouse, The Lituanian Philharmonic, le Filarmonica et l'OSSDRE from Montevideo etc.

David Walter was only 29 years old when, owing to his enthusiasm and dedication to teaching, he was appointed the youngest-ever oboe and chamber music professor at the renowned Paris Conservatoire. He has also taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama since 1997, and regularly gives numerous masterclasses all over the world.

In an attempt to enrich the relatively limited oboe repertoire, Mr. Walter has proved himself a tireless and authoritative transcriber : to date he has made more than 230 arrangements, and many of which are now well known. He also encourages new works by young composers such as Gilles Raynal , Gilles Silvestrini or Thierry Escaich, and is himself a composer (18 works to date).

David Walter's experience of group performance has led him naturally to conduct small orchestras and ensembles such as the Bretagne Orchestra, Auvergne Orchestra or the Bourgogne Camerata.

Lastly, he also is the artistic director of two collections with the music publisher Billaudot, and contributes also the recently founded Notissimo publishing company.

For more information visit the personal website of David Walter