oboe
Nicoline Alt
Nicoline Alt started playing the oboe at the age of eleven and enrolled four years later at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, where she studied with Frank Minderaa and Ali Green. Upon graduating with honours, she went on to study with Klaus Becker in Hanover.
From an early age, Alt proved to be a talented oboist, winning first prize at various competitions, including the 1987 National Competition of the Foundation for Young Musical Talent in the Netherlands and the 1988 Edith Stein Competition (later called the Princess Christina Competition). In June 1990, she won the Expressivity Competition at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.
After playing in the National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands for four years, Nicoline was a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra from 1990 to 1994. She was subsequently appointed first oboist of the Nederlands Balletorkest.
Alt joined the Concertgebouworkest as second oboist in January 1998. She also gives regular chamber music concerts.
Since 2016 she has an oboe on loan, built by the Parisian builder Marigaux, from the Foundation Concertgebouworkest. In addition, she is a grateful user of the Swiss reed cutting machine with which she can make her reed with greater precision and less physical effort.
Nicoline Alt started playing the oboe at the age of eleven and enrolled four years later at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, where she studied with Frank Minderaa and Ali Green. Upon graduating with honours, she went on to study with Klaus Becker in Hanover.
From an early age, Alt proved to be a talented oboist, winning first prize at various competitions, including the 1987 National Competition of the Foundation for Young Musical Talent in the Netherlands and the 1988 Edith Stein Competition (later called the Princess Christina Competition). In June 1990, she won the Expressivity Competition at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.
After playing in the National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands for four years, Nicoline was a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra from 1990 to 1994. She was subsequently appointed first oboist of the Nederlands Balletorkest.
Alt joined the Concertgebouworkest as second oboist in January 1998. She also gives regular chamber music concerts.
Since 2016 she has an oboe on loan, built by the Parisian builder Marigaux, from the Foundation Concertgebouworkest. In addition, she is a grateful user of the Swiss reed cutting machine with which she can make her reed with greater precision and less physical effort.
Nicoline Alt started playing the oboe at the age of eleven and enrolled four years later at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, where she studied with Frank Minderaa and Ali Green. Upon graduating with honours, she went on to study with Klaus Becker in Hanover.
From an early age, Alt proved to be a talented oboist, winning first prize at various competitions, including the 1987 National Competition of the Foundation for Young Musical Talent in the Netherlands and the 1988 Edith Stein Competition (later called the Princess Christina Competition). In June 1990, she won the Expressivity Competition at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.
After playing in the National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands for four years, Nicoline was a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra from 1990 to 1994. She was subsequently appointed first oboist of the Nederlands Balletorkest.
Alt joined the Concertgebouworkest as second oboist in January 1998. She also gives regular chamber music concerts.
Since 2016 she has an oboe on loan, built by the Parisian builder Marigaux, from the Foundation Concertgebouworkest. In addition, she is a grateful user of the Swiss reed cutting machine with which she can make her reed with greater precision and less physical effort.
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Nicoline Alt - image: Eduardus Lee -
Nicoline Alt during a concert. image: Milagro Elstak -
Nicoline Alt image: Anne Dokter -
Nicoline Alt explains how to operate a reed cutting machine to Friends of the Concertgebouworkest. image: Ronald Knapp -
Nicoline Alt during a concert. image: Milagro Elstak
