Peter Veale
Oboe Tutor
Born in 1959 in Dunedin, New Zealand. Peter Veale grew up in a family of musicians in Australia. He studied oboe with Heinz Holliger and conducting with Francis Travis in Freiburg. He has been a member of Ensemble Musikfabrik since 1994 and performs worldwide as a soloist. He is author of the book “The Techniques of Oboe Playing”, which was published in 1994 by Bärenreiter. Veale has been teaching oboe since 2013 at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne.
Along with various education programs, which he developed and realised with and for Ensemble Musikfabrik, he has been the artistic director of Studio Musikfabrik, the youth ensemble for contemporary music of the Landesmusikrat NRW (North-Rhein-Westfalia) since 2012. Since October 2024, he has been the director and project coordinator of the New Music Ensemble at the University of Music in Lübeck.
Peter Veale has been oboe tutor at the Darmstadt Summer Course for over 14 years.