Stefan Schilli

Univ.-Prof. of Oboe⋅Wind, Brass & Percussion Department⋅Pre-College

For many years, Stefan Schilli has devoted himself to performing on historical oboe instruments and is a founding member of the Baroque ensemble L’Accademia Giocosa, which received a Diapason d’or for its recording of previously unknown instrumental works by G. Ph. Telemann. In addition to his professorship at the Mozarteum University, which he has held since 2004, Stefan Schilli is a permanent guest lecturer at such renowned institutions as the Escuela Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and McGill University in Montreal.

Stefan Schilli studied at the music academies in Trossingen and Karlsruhe before being appointed principal oboist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1991. Success at international competitions soon followed, with prizes at the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb in 1993, and at the Prague Spring International Music Festival and the ARD Competition in 1996. In the same year, he was awarded the Brüder-Busch-Preis, which has honoured exceptionally gifted musicians since 1970.

He made his debut in the Berlin Philharmonie with the Oboe Concerto by Richard Strauss, accompanied by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. As a soloist he has performed with well-known conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Mariss Jansons, Sir Colin Davis, Reinhard Goebel, Christopher Hogwood, Franz Welser-Möst, Dennis Russell Davies and many more. Guest tours regularly take him to Southeast Asia, the USA and Russia, or to renowned festivals such as the Edinburgh Festival or the Pablo Casals Festival in southern France. His concert tours have taken him to the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, among other places, where he performed oboe concertos by J. S. Bach together with the Dutch Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Numerous CD and television recordings document his wide-ranging work. Particular highlights include an album of the Strauss, Martinů and B. A. Zimmermann oboe concertos with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mariss Jansons, and a CD of chamber music works by Charles Koechlin, both on the OehmsClassics label.