Eric Speller - oboe

Since 1997 Eric Speller, French oboe player born in 1971, is principal solo oboist at the Royal Flemish Philharmonic in Belgium. First Price from "Conservatoire National Supérieur" of Lyon in 1994, "prix de perfectionnement" in 1995 from Supérior conservatorium from Genève, he joined the same year the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra as co-soloist. He is also a winner of the Natexis Foundation Award. In 1996, he was a prizewinner in the international oboe competition in Prague and in 1997, he won the third prize in the international oboe competition in Tokyo.

Eric is oboe professor at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels since 2011 and at the “Ecole Normale Cortot” from Paris from 2016 to 2019.

He is regularly invited to give masterclasses in France, Belgium, Spain, Holland, Vietnam, Macau, Hong-Kong, Swiss, USA, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Korean, China…

As a passionate musician, his repertoire ranges from the baroque era on authentic instruments to contemporary creations. He recently created and recorded "les fragments de belles heures) from Pierre Bartholomée (label Cypres) and collaborates regularly with the baroque orchestras Concert Spirituel (Hervé Niquet), Concert d'Astrée (Emmanuelle Haim) and with the ensemble Amarillis with which he participated in several recordings (Charpentier, Haendel ...)

He has also recorded Canteloube’s Chants d’Auvergne with the Auvergne Chamber Orchestra.

He recorded many solo albums with the complete oboe repertoire of Robert Schumann, Benjamin Britten (diapason d’or) and Antal Dorati as well as Heinz Holligers solo sonata.

In 2011 an album dedicated to the romantic repertoire and in 2021 an album dedicated to the German baroque oboe sonatas.

His latest 2024 album is dedicated to the French oboe sonatas and fantasy.

Eric Speller plays a Lorée oboe.