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The Spanish oboist, Ramón Ortega Quero, received solid training from Miguel Quirós early on at the Conservatory of Granada. He became a member of the Andalusian Youth Orchestra as a 12-year-old. In 2003, he cleared an important hurdle when conductor Daniel Barenboim accepted him as a member of the East-West Divan Orchestra. One of his finest hours was winning First Prize at the ARD Music Competition held in Munich in September 2007.
Since Spring 2008, Ramón Ortega Quero is also Principal Oboe of the Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphonieorchester under its Principal Conductor Mariss Jansons and is working with world-known conductors such as Daniel Barenboim, Herbert Blomstedt, Sir Colin Davis, Iván Fischer, John Eliot Gardiner, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Riccardo Muti. The 2010-2011 season was highly effected by his nomination as a “Rising Star” by the “European Concert Hall Organisation”, which led him to the most important concert halls in Europe (Brussels, Luxembourg, Vienna, Salzburg, Hamburg, Amsterdam).
Ramón Ortega Quero is recognized around the world as one of the most outstanding musicians of his generation. During the past seasons he appeared, among others, with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Zürcher Kammerorchester, Wiener Kammerorchester, Münchener Kammerorchester, Kammerakademie Potsdam and Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (OSESP). With different chamber music partners (Elena Bashkirova, Kit Armstrong, Mitsuko Uchida, Herbert Schuch and Sebastian Manz, amongst others), he played in the concert series in Vienna, Salzburg, Baden-Baden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hanover, Valencia, Cologne, Vancouver and at the international festivals in Gstaad, Jerusalem, the Heidelberger Frühling, the Lucerne Festival, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Rheingau Musik Festival. Among his partners are such renowned musicians as Janine Jansen, Guy Braunstein and Tabea Zimmermann.
In 2015 Ramón Ortega Quero played the world premiere of the oboe concerto Legacy, which composer Oscar Navarro dedicated to him. Performance highlights in season 2015-2016 season included his debut at Carnegie Hall New York, in 2016-2017 he came back to the Konzerthausorchester Berlin conducted by Iván Fischer and played concerts in Edinburgh and Glasgow with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under conductor Robin Ticciati. He was also reinvited by the Münchener Kammerorchester and the Kammerakademie Potsdam. Furthermore he travelled to Asia for concerts with the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. The concert season 2017-2018 season brought him to several concerts to Spain - together with the Orquestra de Extremadura as well as the Orquestra de Castilla y León -, to Finland and on a tour through the Netherlands, together with the Philharmony Zuidnederland. With the wind quartet variation5, with whom his last album "variation5" was released on Berlin Classics (Edel), he was on tour again in spring 2018. Furthermore, he was invited by the Bach Orchester Leipzig.
His debut CD "Shadows" (Solo Musica) won the ECHO KLASSIK award in 2011. In 2012 he was awarded with his second ECHO KLASSIK, which he received together with his colleagues Sebastian Manz, Marc Trenel, David Alonso Fernandez and Herbert Schuch for the "Chamber Music recording of the year". Other recordings have been released on Genuin, recorded with the Kammerakademie Potsdam and with the pianist Kateryna Titova. In 2015 his solo album "Bach: New Oboe Sonatas" was recorded by the Label Edel.
Ramón Ortega Quero is a fellowship award-winner of the Borletti Buitoni Trust London. He currently lives in Munich, Germany. |
