Michel Hoffmann

Born in Metz in 1961, he won a first prize for oboe and chamber music in 1981 at the Conservatoire de Besançon. Meetings with the soloists Pierre Pierlot, Lajos Lencsès and Daniel Arrignon will be decisive in the continuation of his instrumental training.

At the same time, he studied conducting with the Swiss conductor Ernst Schelle. His repertoire covers a large part of the concertante works for oboe, as well as the chamber music he particularly likes.

He has worked as a teacher musician at summer academies, the Blue Lake Festival (Michigan) and in 1998 in Sarajevo, where he will also participate in the orchestra season. His musical life is divided between his interventions as orchestra musician in oboe and English Horn, especially within the ensemble Entre Sable et Ciel based in Brest, chamber music - particularly the Trielen ensemble for which he makes many arrangements and pedagogy, in his chamber music and orchestra oboe classes at the Brest Conservatory.

He has recently studied the baroque oboe, which gives him the opportunity to revisit the repertoire of early music.