Antoine Torunczyk

Oboe

Fascinated by eighteen century repertoire, Antoine Torunczyk soon specialized in early oboe performance practice, first in the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Lyon under guidance of Michel Henry, then in Amsterdam’s Sweelinck Conservatorium, with Alfredo Bernardini. He graduated in 2000, and the same year he obtained the First Prize in the baroque oboe competition in Halle (Germany).

Currently Principal Oboe in the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra as well as in Concerto Copenhagen, he frequently collaborates with many of the main period instruments orchestras in Europe.

Antoine is also a very active chamber musician, and co-founder of l’Assemblée des Honnestes Curieux, winner of the Premio Bomporti Early Music Competition in Rovereto (Italy), as well as the baroque ensemble D!ssonanti, together with musicians such as Sébastien Marq, Amandine Beyer, Javier Zafra, Tami Troman, Chiaopin Kuo.

He has been taking part in numerous recordings, as an orchestral player or as a chamber musician or soloist : Pierre Philidor Suites for oboe & BC (Zig Zag Territoires), Handel’s sonatas of several parts (ZZT), Bach double concerto (with violin player Amandine Beyer) and concerto for oboe d’amore (Alpha), Bach’s Overtures, B minor mass, Brandeburg Concertos (Concerto Copenhagen, CPO). He has taken part in the ambitious project Vision.Bach – performing and recording Bach’s first year of cantatas in Leipzig, 300 years after their creation (he plays in BWV 12, 21, 24, 46, 76, 104, 105,167,147, 166, 185), under the direction of Hans Christoph Rademann.

Antoine is very involved in pedagogy and is currently teaching early oboe in the Early Music Department of the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMdP), and has been recently appointed in the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag (NL). He also teaches every year in the Vielklang summer course in Tübingen. He is webmaster of the Hautboy Companion, a pedagogical website about early oboe.