CHRISTOPHER PALAMETA
HISTORICAL OBOES
about
Born in Montreal and currently residing in Paris, Christopher Palameta is a specialist of historical oboes and performs with many of Europe’s finest period ensembles. These include Il Pomo d'Oro and Accademia Bizantina in Italy; The Gabrieli Consort and Arcangelo in the UK; Les Arts Florissants, Pygmalion, Les Musiciens du Louvre, and Les Siècles in France; Anima Eterna, La Petite Bande and Vox Luminis in Belgium; Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, Concerto Köln and Die Kölner Akademie in Germany; the Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra and Capella Cracoviensis in Poland; and various other ensembles such as the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Ensemble Arion (Canada), the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, Suomalainen Barokkiorkesteri (the Finnish Baroque Orchestra) and MusicAeterna (Russia). With these orchestras, he has toured on five continents and recorded 65 discs for the Erato, Sony BMG, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, CPO, BIS, Alpha, Naxos, ATMA, and Analekta labels.
An ardent defender of unexplored repertoire for the oboe, Palameta's solo discography includes suites by Marin Marais (nominated in 2015 for the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik or German Record Critics’ Award), sonatas by Janitsch, Krause, Graun, Philidor and Grétry with his chamber collective Notturna for the Sony and ATMA labels, and a recording of concertos by Molter with Die Kölner Akademie for ARS.
A recipient of several research grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Christopher took his graduate degree from McGill University in historical oboes, where he studied with the late Bruce Haynes and the late Washington McClain. After his studies, he was appointed to the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Toronto, Canada), where was a core member for five years. He completed his PhD in Musicology at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where his research on the oboe under Berlioz was supported by the Maple Leaf Trust (Canadian Centennial Fund).
He teaches historical oboes at the Sibelius Academy (Helsinki University of the Arts).
orchestral recordings
Christopher’s discography currently includes 67 titles: 9 solo recordings and the 58 orchestral CDs shown below
Beethoven - Symphonies 5 & 6
Tafelmusik (dir. Bruno Weil)
Analekta, 2005
Richard Wagner
Wesendonck Lieder (1858)
Joyce DiDonato & Il Pomo d'Oro
(dir. Maxim Emelyanychev)
Erato (2023)
Mondonville
Le Carnaval du Parnasse
Les Ambassadeurs/Grande Écurie
(dir. Alexis Kossenko)
Château de Versailles (2024)
G. F. Händel
Theodora
Il Pomo d'Oro
(dir. Maxim Emelyanychev)
Erato (2022)
W. A. Mozart
Overtures
Kölner Akademie, dir. Willens
BIS (2024)
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concertos 1 & 2,
Capriccio brillant & Rondo brillant
Kölner Akademie, dir. Willens
BIS (2018)
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Pygmalion
Apotheosis Orchestra
(dir. K. Bernolet)
Ramée (2018)
F. Schubert
Violin Concerto in D major (1816)
Kölner Akademie, dir. Willens
BIS (2019)
W. A. Mozart
Thamos, König in Ägypten; Maurerische Trauermusik; etc.
Kölner Akademie, dir. Willens
BIS (2017)
Jacques Offenbach
Pomme d'Api & Sur un volcan
(1873/1855)
Kölner Akademie, dir. Willens
CPO (2020)
J. S. Bach
Cantates pour St-Michel
BWV 19, 130, 149
Montréal Baroque
ATMA
J. S. Bach
Cantates pour la Nativité
BWV 61, 122, 123, 182
Montréal Baroque
ATMA
G. F. Händel
Concerti Grossi, op. 6
Aradia Ensemble
Naxos
Jean-Noël Hamal
Motets
Scherzi Musicali
Musique en Wallonie (2021)
William Boyce
Eight Symphonies, op. 2
Aradia Ensemble
Naxos
J. H. Rolle
Lukas-Passion
Kölner Akademie, dir. Willens
CPO (2021)
C. F. Abel
Symphonies op. 1 & 4
Kölner Akademie, dir. Willens
CPO (2018)
Johann Schelle
Actus Musicus auf
Weyh-Nachten (1683)
Kölner Akademie, dir. Willens
CPO (2016)
Johann Wilhelm Wilms
Piano Concertos, vol. I
Kölner Akademie, dir. Willens
BIS (2023)
Various
"The Quest for Arundo Donax"
Tafelmusik
Analekta (2006)
Helsinki Window
Tiensuu: Innuo (2018)
Finnish Baroque Orchestra
FIBO Records (2019)
"EDEN"
Arias with Joyce DiDonato
Il Pomo d'Oro
(dir. Maxim Emelyanychev)
Erato (2022)
G. F. Händel
Apollo e Dafne
Il Pomo d'Oro
(dir. Francesco Corti)
Pentatone (2022)
W. A. Mozart
"1791" with Pierre Génisson
Concerto Köln
(dir. Jakob Lehmann)
Erato (2023)
Henry Purcell
King Arthur (1691)
Gabrieli Consort
(dir. Paul McCreesh)
Signum Classics (2019)
Les Soupers du Roy
Works by Blamont, Delalande, Destouches, Francoeur, Rameau
Arion, dir. Mathieu Lussier
ATMA (2023)
Carl Maria von Weber
Complete Piano Concertos
Kölner Akademie, dir. Willens
Ronald Brautigam, fortepiano
BIS (2021)
W. A. Mozart
Posthorn Serenade, K 320 (1779)
Kölner Akademie, dir. Willens
BIS (2016)
J. S. Bach
Magnificat
Vox Luminis
Alpha (2017)
A. Vivaldi
Gloria & Magnificat
Ensemble Caprice
ATMA
J. S. Bach
Cantates pour Ste-Marie
BWV 1, 82, 147
Montréal Baroque
ATMA
J. S. Bach
Cantates pour St-Jean-Baptiste
BWV 7, 30, 167
Montréal Baroque
ATMA
Samuel Arnold
Polly (1777)
Aradia Ensemble
Naxos
J. B. Lully
Persée (1682)
Tafelmusik (dir. Hervé Niquet)
EuroArts
G. F. Händel
Arias with Karina Gauvin
Tempo Rubato
(dir. Alexander Weimann)
ATMA
G. P. Telemann
Christmas Cantatas III
Kölner Akademie, dir. Willens
CPO (2020)
E. W. Wolf
Oratorio "Jesu, deine Passion will ich jetzt bedenken" (1756)
Kölner Akademie, dir. Willens
CPO (2017)
G. P. Telemann
"Aller augen warten auf dich"
Cantatas (1716-1720)
Mannheimer Hofkapelle
CPO (2017)
Johann Wilhelm Wilms
Piano Concertos, vol. II
Kölner Akademie, dir. Willens
BIS (2023)
"Concerti Virtuosi"
incl. double oboe concerti by Fasch & Vivaldi
Tafelmusik
Analekta (2004)
Edward Elgar
The Dream of Gerontius (1900)
Gabrieli Consort
(dir. Paul McCreesh)
Signum/Winged Lion (2024)
"Facce d'amore"
Arias with Jakub Jozef Orlinski
Il Pomo d'Oro
(dir. Maxim Emelyanychev)
Erato (2019)
L. van Beethoven
The Complete Piano Concerti
Kölner Akademie, dir. Willens
Ronald Brautigam, fortepiano
BIS (2019)
Henry Purcell
The Fairy Queen (1692)
Gabrieli Consort
(dir. Paul McCreesh)
Signum Classics (2020)
L. van Beethoven
Symphonies 5 & 6
Tafelmusik
(dir. Bruno Weil)
Analekta (2005)
W. A. Mozart
Symphonies 40 & 41
Tafelmusik (dir. Bruno Weil)
Sony/Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 2006
Carl Stamitz
Four Symphonies
incl. "Le Jour Variable"
Kölner Akademie, dir. Willens
CPO (2020)
F. J. Haydn
Symphonies 41, 44 & 49
Arion (dir. Gary Cooper)
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Marin Marais
Semele
Montréal Baroque
(dir. Wieland Kuijken)
ATMA
J. S. Bach
Cantates pour la Pentecôte
BWV 68, 173, 174, 184
Montréal Baroque
ATMA
G. F. Händel
Water Music & Music for the Royal Fireworks
Aradia Ensemble
Naxos
J.-H. Fiocco
Petits Motets, vol. II
Scherzi Musicali
Musique en Wallonie (2016)
"Azahar"
incl. Stravinsky Messe (1948)
La Tempête
Alpha (2016)
Henry Purcell
Theatre Music from Amphytrion, Gordian Knot Unty'd, etc.
Aradia Ensemble
Naxos
G. P. Telemann
Michaelis-Oratorium (1762)
Kölner Akademie, dir. Willens
CPO (2018)
J. H. Rolle
Matthäuspassion
Kölner Akademie, dir. Willens
CPO (2016)
Homilius, Stölzel, Rolle
Christmas Cantatas
Kölner Akademie, dir. Willens
CPO (2017)
C. P. E. Bach
Magnificat
Kölner Akademie, dir. Willens
CPO (2023)
J. S. Bach "Requiem"
(imaginary reconstruction inspired by the cantatas)
Les Agréments
xxi-21 Productions