Alexandre Oguey - Oboe

Currently Principal Cor Anglais in the Sydney Symphony, Alexandre Oguey
was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, initially studying oboe in La Chaux-de-Fonds with Françoise Faller. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Zurich Conservatorium, with Thomas Indermühle and participated in courses with Maurice Bourgue and Emanuel Abbühl.

He is the winner of several competitions including the Swiss Radio Competition, the Migro Chamber Music competition and the Martigny International Chamber Music competition.

Alexandre Oguey is an active chamber musician, and has performed throughout Europe with the prize-winning Wildwind quintet, the Lamalo and La Patisserie trios, the windensembles Banda Classica and Octomania as well as the contemporary music group Opus Novum Ensemble.

He has played principal oboe with the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Zurich Opera Factory, the Basel Chamber Orchestra (previous Serenata Basel), Opera Orchestra of the Bayreuth International Youth Festival and the Jeunesses Musicales Symphony Orchestra. Before moving to Australia, Alexandre Oguey was also Associate Principal Oboe in the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra from 1990 to 1997.