Jonathan Kelly

Jonathan Kelly has been principal oboe of the Berliner Philharmoniker since 2003. He played in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and read history at Cambridge before studying the oboe at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Celia Nicklin and then in Paris with Maurice Bourgue. Straight after his studies he became principal oboe of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, a post he held until his move to Berlin. Alongside his orchestral work he appears as a soloist and chamber musician, and he has taught at the orchestra’s Karajan Academy and at the Royal Academy of Music, of which he is a Fellow.