Fabien Thouand
France
Oboe
About
Born in Metz, Lorraine, he began studying the oboe at a very early age at the National Conservatoire in Metz with Serge Haerrig and André Sablon. He soon moved on to the capital, and in 1996 he won first prize in Jean-Claude Jaboulay’s class at the Paris Conservatoire; he was then admitted to the prestigious Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he studied with Jean-Louis Capezzali Tys and Frédéric Tardy, where he was unanimously awarded first prize in 2000. In 2001, he successfully enrolled in the advanced cycle of Maurice Bourgue’s class, again at the Paris Conservatoire. This was a decisive year, as he won numerous international awards, including prizes at the Petritoli, Toulon and Printemps de and the Prague Spring Competition.
He then embarked on a relevant and uninterrupted international career, and was invited to play as oboe soloist in some of Europe’s leading orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Bayerischen Staatsoper, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunk, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France and the Radio France Philharmonic. In this capacity and in this field, he has collaborated and continues to collaborate with the greatest conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel and Zubin Metha, Yuri Termikanov, Kurt Mazur, Charles Dutoit, Claudio Abbado and Riccardo Chailly. In 2004, he became principal oboist of the orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and of the Filarmonica della Scala until recently, in 2022, as principal oboe of the Orchestra of the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
In addition to his intense concert activity, he has shown a strong interest in teaching masterclasses around the world, including in Japan, Colombia and Europe. In this capacity, he has been invited by Jean-Louis Capezzali and Jérôme Guichard to be assistant professor of oboe at the Conservatoire Nationale Supérieure de Musique de Lyon before becoming principal professor at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, He is also actively involved with the Royal College of Music in London. He is currently teaching at Haute Ecole de Musique – Vaud in Lausanne.
Sion Academy Masterclass
14.02.2025 -> 16.02.2025 : Winter Academy Professors