Christopher Palameta

Born in Montréal, Christopher Palameta is a specialist in historical oboes and performs with several major international early-music ensembles. With these groups, he has toured on five continents and has recorded more than sixty albums for labels such as Erato, Sony BMG, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Ramée, Pentatone, CPO, BIS, Alpha, Naxos, ATMA Classique, and Analekta—many of them award-winning. A passionate champion of the lesser-known oboe repertoire, Palameta founded Notturna in 2006 to revive the significant body of chamber music written for his instrument.

His solo discography includes suites for oboe by Marin Marais (selected for a Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik in 2015, or German Record Critics’ Award); sonatas by Handel, Abel, J. C. Bach, Janitsch, Krause and Graun with Notturna for the ATMA Classique and Sony labels; concertos by Molter with Die Kölner Akademie on the ARS label; and works from the early French Romantic period for oboe and piano on Ramée.

A multiple grant recipient from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts, Christopher is a graduate of McGill University and the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he completed his doctorate. His doctoral research on the oboe in the era of Berlioz was supported by the Maple Leaf Trust (Canadian Centennial Fund).

He teaches historical oboe at the Sibelius Academy (Helsinki University of the Arts).