Philippe Tondre  Philippe Tondre (born in 1989) is a French-British contemporary classical oboist. Born in Mulhouse, Philippe Tondre started studying the oboe at the age of six in Yves Cautrès's class at the Mulhouse National School of Music before joining the Conservatoire de Paris in David Walter's class where he won his Prize of oboe as well as his master's degree in music interpretation. He also followed lessons by teachers such as Heinz Holliger, Maurice Bourgue, Jacques Tys, Jean-Louis Capezzali and Ingo Goritzki. Very attached to orchestral activity, during his studies he integrated the and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester under the direction of Sir Colin Davis and Herbert Blomstedt. At the age of eighteen, he was appointed solo oboe of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra ("Südwestrundfunk") under the direction of Sir Roger Norrington and Georges Prêtre, a position he held from 2008 to 2016. At the age of 19, he was spotted by Seiji Ozawa in Japan and became in 2010 a member of the "Saito Kinen Orchestra" of Matsumoto and then, in 2012, the Mito Chamber Orchestra under his direction. Since then, he has undertaken international tours with these two bands. As a guest solo oboe, Philippe Tondre has performed regularly with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. He had the opportunity to perform as a soloist with the Orchestre de chambre de Genève, the New Mozart Orchestra of London, the , the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Thailand, the Orchestre de Chambre de Munich, the "Ensemble La Folia", the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra and participates in many festivals in Asia, Europe and the United States. In 2013, Philippe played the German premiere of James MacMillan's Oboe concerto under the direction of the composer in Stuttgart with his orchestra. In June of the same year, he played his "Debüt Konzert" at the Berlin Philharmonic with the Deutsche Sinfonie Orchester Berlin.