Dominik Wollenweber

The sound of the English horn has been familiar to him since his earliest childhood: his father was the English horn player in the Bavarian State Orchestra. But Dominik Wollenweber took the long way round to this instrument. He first played the flute and, at the age 14, he took up the oboe, which he studied in Munich with Hagen Wangenheim at the Musikhochschule and with Simon Dent at the Richard Strauss Conservatory.

He made his first contacts with the Berliner Philharmoniker as a scholar of the Orchestra Academy, in which he studied from 1991 to 1993 with Hansjörg Schellenberger. During this time, Dominik Wollenweber was Principal Oboist of the European Union Youth Orchestra under Claudio Abbado. After applying for various oboe positions, he approached the Berliner Philharmoniker to audition for the vacant English horn player position and was hired.

He made his first contacts with the Berliner Philharmoniker as a scholar of the Orchestra Academy, in which he studied from 1991 to 1993 with Hansjörg Schellenberger. During this time, Dominik Wollenweber was Principal Oboist of the European Union Youth Orchestra under Claudio Abbado. After applying for various oboe positions, he approached the Berliner Philharmoniker to audition for the vacant English horn player position and was hired.

Dominik Wollenweber has been trusting Buffet Crampon, and participating in the continual improvement of our student oboes day after day, as an endorser, since 2014.

She has recorded Carter's sonata (Classica), Beethoven's Quintet with François-Frédéric Guy (Diapason d'or, "ffff", "Choc" du Monde de la Musique), Brod's chamber music for oboe and harp, Boccherini's concerti with the Solisti Veneti, and several recordings with MW Chung, Kazuchi Ono, M. Janowski (Deutche Grammophon, Harmonia Mundi). His latest CD, 'French music for oboe and piano' with Rikako Murata, released by Klarthe, has been a great success.

Hélène Devilleneuve teaches sight-reading for woodwind instruments at the Conservatoire de Saint-Maur and the CNSM in Paris.She also teaches chamber music at the Paris Conservatoire, and is invited to take part in masterclasses all over the world. Hélène Devilleneuve is a tester for Buffet-Crampon oboes.