Ramón Ortega Quero

Winner of the ECHO Award on two occasions and the ARD Munich Competition in 2007, the oboist from Granada, Ramón Ortega Quero, is recognised worldwide as one of the best oboists of his generation. He is Principal Oboe of the Bayerische Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester (Mariss Jansons), a position he combined in 2018 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Gustavo Dudamel). As such, he has worked with the most renowned conductors, such as Riccardo Muti, Herbert Blomstedt, Sir Colin Davies, John Eliot Gardiner, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Bernhard Haitink, to name a few.
Ramón Ortega Quero has an incessant concert activity, having been invited as a soloist by orchestras such as the MDR Sinfonieorchester, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hanover, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Wiener Kammerorchester, English Chamber Orchestra, Györ Philharmonic Orchestra, Trondheim Soloists, Sao Paulo Symphony, Bachorchester Leipzig, etc.
He maintains a close relationship with groups such as the Kammerakademie Potsdam, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Münchener Kammerorchester and the Prague Philharmonia. In 18/19 he was Artist in Residence of the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, conducting and playing with the orchestra in several programmes.
As a chamber musician, he has shared the stage with important musicians such as Mitsuko Uchida, Elena Bashkirova, Janine Jansen, Guy Braunstein and Tabea Zimmermann, among many others. With them he has played in the seasons of Frankfurt, Berlin, Hanover, Valencia, Cologne, Vancouver, etc., and in international festivals such as Gstaad, Jerusalem, Heidelberger Frühling, Lucerne Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern or the Rheingau Musikfestival. In 2015 he premiered the Concerto “Legacy”, which the composer Óscar Navarro dedicated to him. In 2016 he debuted at Carnegie Hall in New York and last season he was invited to play a tour with the Prague Philharmonia, concerts with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin (with Ivan Fischer), Scottish Chamber Orchestra (Robin Ticciati), Munich Chamber Orchestra or the Kammerakademie Potsdam. He has also recently undertaken an Asian tour with the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta.
Ramón Ortega Quero has recorded several albums: his first album, “Shadows” (Solo Musica), was awarded the ECHO Klassik as Revelation Award. After this, he recorded a chamber music album with the Kammerakademie Postdam (Label Genuin), which was again awarded as Chamber Music Recording of the Year. He has also recorded “The Romantic Oboist” (Genuin) with the pianist Kateryna Titova, and Bach’s Concerto for Oboe and Violin with Janine Jansen for the DECCA label. Commitments in 20/21 will take him to play solo concerts with the Stadorchester Friedrichschafen, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, tour in Australia (Australian Festival of Chamber Music), Brandenburg Concertos in Hamburg, recitals in Toronto, Munich, Tyrol, Australia, etc.
After studying with Miguel Quirós at the Granada Conservatory, at the age of twelve he joined the Youth Orchestra of Andalusia; in 2003, he made a major leap in his career when Daniel Barenboim included him as a member of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded with Edward Said and winner of the Prince of Asturias Award. Ramón Ortega Quero is also a winner of the Borletti Buitoni Trust London scholarship.