Masterclass Oboe

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.