Masterclass Oboe (CMK31)

Prof. Nick Deutsch was born in Israel in 1972. At the age of 13, he began his full-time studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (Australia), later continuing 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 further his studies with Prof. Diethelm Jonas at the State University of Music in Trossingen.

As a solo oboist, he has worked with major orchestras and ensembles such as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Munich Philharmonic, Radio Symphony Orchestras in Frankfurt, Cologne, Stuttgart, Berlin, and Munich, and the opera houses in Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, and Stuttgart, under world-renowned conductors such as Zubin Mehta, James Levine, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel, Gustavo Dudamel, Ivan Fischer, and many others. He regularly performs as a solo oboist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and is a member of the Budapest Festival Orchestra.

As a sought-after chamber music partner, he is a founding member of the "Hindemith Quintet" (Frankfurt) and performs with the "Ensemble Modern" and the Andras Schiff ensemble "Capella Andrea Barca". He is a regular guest at major international festivals. Since 2003, Nick Deutsch has been the solo oboist of the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra. From 2004–2010, he was a professor of oboe at the University of Music, Mainz, and in 2010, Nick Deutsch was appointed professor of oboe at the University of Music in Leipzig "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy".