Viola Wilmsen appointed professor for oboe
Viola Wilmsen was appointed professor of oboe at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin from the summer semester of 2022.
Viola Wilmsen studied in Lübeck with Diethelm Jonas and in Paris with Jacques Tys and Prof. Dominik Wollenweber at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin. In 2010, while she was still studying, she won the position of solo oboist at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Since 2012 she has been principal oboe with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
She gives master classes in Germany and abroad, teached oboe at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, is a juror at international competitions and acts as an ambassador for the Rhapsody in School initiative.
Viola Wilmsen is a frequent guest as a soloist and chamber musician on national and international stages and festivals, such as the Rheingau Music Festival, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the International Music Festival The Next Generation, the Easter Festival Baden-Baden, the Festival Spannungen in Heimbach, the Geneva, Gstaad and Flims Festivals in Switzerland, the Festival Internacional de Musica de Cambra in Spain and the Stresa Festival in Italy.
As solo oboist, Viola Wilmsen has had engagements with the Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and Mahler Chamber Orchestra, among others. She played under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle, Riccardo Chailly, Valery Gergiev, Zubin Mehta, Andris Nelsons, Robin Ticciati, Sir Roger Norrington and Kent Nagano.
In 2014 the debut CD of her sextet Berlin Counterpoint was released, which received the Usedom Music Prize in 2013. In 2014 she won the Echo Klassik with the Berolina Ensemble. In 2017 she released recordings of works for oboe and piano by Czech composers of the 20th century.