Masterclass Oboe
Prof. Nick Deutsch ProbespielCourse repertoire: freely selectable
Master class, individual instruction
Technique and interpretation
Active and passive participation possible
Course start: Sunday, March 8, 2026, 3:00 PM
Course end: Friday, March 13, 2026, after breakfast
Price example:
880.00 € course fee (active participation), accommodation, and meals for students
Additional rates available
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How can I prepare effectively for an audition? What can make my performance even more convincing? What do I need to feel more comfortable on stage?
Both in daily individual and group lessons, the situation surrounding auditions and entrance exams will be examined in theory and practice.
An audition for a position in an orchestra or an audition for a role at an opera house is an extreme situation involving the highest levels of tension. You often have to perform at your personal best in a very short time and under the most difficult conditions.
Even musicians and opera singers, who do not normally find themselves in stressful situations, often experience weak knees and sweating during auditions or tryouts, and simply play or sing much worse than they are actually capable of.
In just a few minutes, musicians have to prove what they can do. This puts many of them under enormous pressure to succeed and causes them a great deal of stress. Young musicians who want to study music at a conservatory also have to demonstrate their musical abilities with precision during the entrance exams.
Time and again, talented young musicians fail to overcome this hurdle and eventually give up on their plans or do not get to study with the teacher of their choice.
At the age of 13, Nick Deutsch began studying at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and later at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne with Anne Gilby, where he graduated and was awarded the Gwen Nisbet Prize for the most outstanding student in 1993. A scholarship enabled him to continue his studies with Diethelm Jonas at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Trossingen.
From 2003 to 2010, Nick Deutsch was principal oboist of the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra. He was professor of oboe at the Mainz University of Music from 2004 to 2010 and has held the same position at the Leipzig University of Music and Theatre since 2010.
As a solo oboist, he has worked with orchestras such as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Munich Philharmonic, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and other orchestras in Cologne, Stuttgart, Berlin and Munich, with the operas in Munich, Berlin, Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Bayreuth, Stuttgart, Oslo and Tel Aviv under world-famous conductors such as Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel, Gustavo Dudamel, Semyon Bychkov and Ivan Fischer. He performs regularly as principal oboist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and was a member of the Budapest Festival Orchestra from 2004 to 2011.As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras such as the Camerata Salzburg, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Bach Kollegium Stuttgart, the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, the Real Filharmonia de Galicia (Spain) and the Munich Chamber Orchestra. As a chamber music partner, he is a founding member of the Hindemith Quintet in Frankfurt am Main and has performed with the Ensemble Modern, the Linos Ensemble and the Cappella Andrea Barca founded by András Schiff.
Nick Deutsch has performed at international music festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, the Edinburgh International Festival, BBC Proms, La Folle Journée, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Rheingau Music Festival, Prague Spring, Bachwoche Ansbach, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Schwetzingen Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Hitzacker Summer Music Festival, Weilburg Castle Concerts, Stuttgart Music Festival, the Munich Biennale, the Walled City Festival in Derry, the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, the International Tongyoeng Music Festival in Korea, the Mehli Mehta Music Foundation Festival in Mumbai, the International Felcia-Blumentahl Music Festival in Tel Aviv and the Sydney Festival.