Born in Montréal, Christopher Palameta is professor of historical oboes at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague (Netherlands), the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel (Belgium), and the Sibelius Academy (Helsinki University of the Arts). He performs with many of Europe’s finest period ensembles with whom he has toured on five continents and recorded over ninety discs of repertoire ranging from Marais to Mahler.

An ardent defender of unexplored repertoire for the oboe, Palameta founded Notturna in 2006 as a platform to excavate forgotten chamber music for his instrument. His solo discography includes suites by Marin Marais; solo concertos by Molter; dozens of chamber sonatas with his chamber collective Notturna; and a recital of early French Romantic works for oboe and piano entitled Berlioz’s Lost Oboe.

Palameta took his PhD in Musicology at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where his doctoral research on Berlioz was supported by the Maple Leaf Trust. A recipient of several research grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, he is a frequent speaker at conferences on nineteenth-century historical performance practice (Oxford, Vienna, Lyon, Kraków, Bern), and has published widely in peer-reviewed scholarly journals.

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