Christopher teaches historical oboes at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag, the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel (KCB) and at the Sibelius Academy (Helsinki University of the Arts).
PUBLICATIONS
“Berlioz’s Lost Oboe: The Simple-System Oboe in France, 1815–50”, Journal of the International Double Reed Society, vol. 47, n°2 (2024), p. 119-139.
“An Oboe from the Belle-Époque: A Late Romantic model by Lorée”, Journal of the British Double Reed Society, vol. 137 (Spring 2024), p. 22-25.
“Un hautbois de la Belle Époque : un modèle Lorée daté 1883”, La Lettre du Hautboïste, n°50 (juillet 2024), p. 35-43.
“Recording Bruckner on Period Instruments” (co-authored with Stefaan Verdegem), Journal of the International Double Reed Society, vol. 47, n°3 (2024), p. 27-28.
“A Widening Gap: Playing Historically-Appropriate Oboes in Performances of 19th-century Music”, chapter in "The Historical Oboe: Current State of Research, Contemporary Practice and Perspectives", ed. Geoffrey Burgess & Katarzyna Pilipiuk, The Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music (Krakow, 2026), pp. 185-199.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
The Galpin Society, University of Oxford (UK) - June 2024
Conference: Materiality and the Meaning of Musical Instruments
Paper: "The Forgotten Last Generation of the Simple-System Oboe in France"
The Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, Kraków (Poland) - February 2024
Conference: The Historical Oboe: Current state of research, contemporary practice, and perspectives
Paper: "Berlioz’s Lost Oboe: The Last Generation of the Simple-System Oboe in France"
Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney (Festsaal, Vienna, Austria) - June 2019
Conference: Correct, but not beautiful performance II
Paper: "Henri Brod and Oboe Playing in Early Nineteenth-Century France"
Conservatoire National Supérieur de Danse et de Musique de Lyon (France) - December 2017
Conference: Le hautbois en France de la période pré-révolutionnaire au Premier Empire
Paper: "Henri Brod's 1826 Méthode"
MASTERCLASSES
Recent teaching collaborations have included masterclasses at:
- The Guildhall School of Music & Drama (London, UK)
- The Haute École de Musique de Lausanne (CH)
- McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
- The Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (Australia)