Omar Zoboli
Omar Zoboli (* 1953 in Modena ) is an Italian oboist and professor at the University of Music Basel.
Training
He studied oboe with Sergio Possidoni and Heinz Holliger and baroque oboe with Paul Dombrecht. In 1978 he won the first prize at the International Music Competition in Ancona and the Italian Radio Competition for Young Performers. He received a decisive impulse by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Frans Brüggen.
Work
Omar Zoboli made primarily for his LP recordings attention to themselves - in particular through the recordings of works by Antonio Pasculli, the " Paganini of the oboe ". Since then, his reputation as an extraordinary musician strengthened through global concerts with orchestras (such as Suisse Romande Geneva, Tonhalle Zurich, Basel Chamber Orchestra, Radio Lugano, Italian radio RAI, Pomeriggi Musicali and Verdi Milan, Radio Krakow at the Warsaw Autumn Festival, Rotterdam Philharmonic ) and appearances at major festivals.
In addition to his work as a soloist Omar Zoboli enthusiastically devoted to chamber music, from the Baroque period-instrument ensemble to large modern wind and strings ensemble. In 1982 he founded the Ottetto Classico Italiano ( wind octet ), with whom he performed throughout Europe.
He has held solo and chamber music literature from three centuries in numerous LPs and CDs recorded ( see directory homepage).
He has premiered works dedicated to him by composers such as Sylvano Bussotti, Niccolò Castiglioni, Paul Glass, Eric Gaudibert, Francesco Hoch, Alessandro Lucchetti, Luca Mosca, Albert Möschinger, Mario Pagliarani, Gianni Possio and many others.
As a solo oboist Omar Zoboli has worked in the Radio Orchestra of Naples, in the Orchestra della Radio Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, in the Symphony Orchestra of St. Gallen and Basel Chamber Orchestra; with baroque and classical oboes, inter alia, in the Concentus Musicus Wien ( Harnoncourt ) at Giardino Armonico ( Antonini ) in Scintilla Orchestra Zurich and at the Barocchisti (Diego Fasolis ).
Since 1991, he joined with his own projects as a conductor of orchestras and wind ensembles to larger, with great success in the orchestral musicians, the audience and the critics.
Teaching
He regularly gives training courses in England at the Royal College of Music in Kensington and Royal Academy of Music, in Spain, Germany, Sweden, Italy, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, China and South America.
Since 1988 he has been Professor ( Oboe Concerto training class and chamber music) at the University of Music Basel.