CÉLINE MOINET

Oboe

Ravishing tone and expressive sensitivity - a most beautiful interpretation.
— Gramophone
An antirely new kind of sensuality, an intoxicating wealth of colours.
— Stereoplay

Céline Moinet is regarded as one of the finest oboists of her generation making her highly in demand as a soloist, chamber musician and recitalist. She brings an extraordinary variety of tone colours and timbres to the art of oboe playing.

Her international career has allowed her to perform as a soloist with the Staatskapelle Dresden, Prag Philharmonia, New Japan Philharmonic, Berliner Symphoniker, Rheinische Philharmonie, Orchestre de Chambre de Toulouse, Hofer Symphoniker, Dresdner Kapellsolisten, Orchestre National de Lille, Antalya State Symphony Orchestra, Meininger Hofkapelle, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia, Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin, Kyoto Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Hiroshima Symphony, Daegu Symphony, Ensemble Resonanz, Symphoniker Hamburg, among others.

Ms. Moinet has toured throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America performing in the most prestigious concert halls in the world such as Festspielhaus Salzburg, Wiener Konzerthaus, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Wigmore Hall London, Semperoper Dresden and Gewandhaus Leipzig. She is a regular guest at festivals of great international resonance in particular Osterfestspiele Salzburg, Wigmore Hall Series, Bath Mozartfest, Colmar Festival, Pacific Music Festival Sapporo, Molyvos Festival, Mozart Festival Johannesburg, Moritzburg Festival, Schostakowitsch Tage Görlitz, International Pharos Chamber Music Festival Cyprus, Nuits Romantiques Aix les Bains, Festival "Classix Kempten" and “Mondsee Festival“, as well as others.

Céline Moinet has developed a strong and creative partnership with many artists, especially with Kit Armstrong, Matthias Goerne, Florian Uhlig and the bassoonist Sophie Dervaux. Her work is reflected in a discography that includes albums devoted to Bach's oboe concertos (Berlin Classics) and the chamber repertoire, alongside Sophie Dervaux and Florian Uhlig (Berlin Classics) or with Sarah Christ (Harmonia Mundi). Her latest recording is dedicated to the oboe quartets of Luigi Gatti and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Berlin Classics, 2025).

In addition to her concert schedule, Céline Moinet is a dedicated teacher. She was appointed as a professor at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden in 2013 and also she has been teaching at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo (Japan), Academie Internationale d’Ete de Musique in Nice (France), Thüringer Landesmusikakademie Sondershausen (Germany) and at the Grafenegg Academy and the Musikademie Tirol in Austria. She constantly gives masterclasses around Europe and Asia. In 2020 she founded the “Rudolf Hiebendahl scholarship”  to offer financial support to oboe students in Dresden.

Céline Moinet was born in Lille in northern France. She began playing oboe at the age of seven and ten years later she enrolled at the Conservatoire de Paris studying oboe with David Walter and chamber music with Maurice Bourgue. Her early career contains the experience of playing in the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester under the direction of Claudio Abbado, as well as with the Nationaltheate-Orchester in Mannheim, where she was appointed Principal Oboe in 2006. At the age of 23, she became the principal oboist of the Staatskapelle Dresden, a coveted position that marked a turning point in her career. Since then, she has performed under the direction of esteemed conductors such as Christian Thielemann, Zubin Mehta, Claudio Abbado, Daniele Gatti and Andris Nelsons, while also being a regular guest with renowned orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Gewandhaus Orchestra, among others.

Ms. Moinet plays an oboe and english horn by Marigaux Paris.