Michael Niesemann

Michael Niesemann serves as Professor of Oboe at Folkwang University of the Arts, appointed in October 2007. He is affiliated with Faculty 1 and maintains an office at location W 006, with contact email michael.niesemann@folkwang-uni.de and private phone number +49 (0) 2237 9796603. His private residence is listed at Kölner Str. 28, 50171 Kerpen, Germany.

He studied at the State University of Music in Cologne from 1979 to 1987. Prior academic appointments include teaching modern and historical oboes at the State University of Music in Cologne (1993-2007) and Professor of Baroque Oboe at the University of Music Würzburg (2004-2007). No additional educational qualifications are specified.

Niesemann's performance practice spans diverse musical eras and styles, specializing in Baroque music on historical instruments (oboe and recorder), Jazz, and Avant-garde music on saxophone and modern oboe. His chamber music collaborations include a decade-long tenure with Musica Antiqua Köln under Reinhard Goebel, alongside project-based work with ensembles such as L' Archi Budelli, Il Concertino Köln, and Ensemble Köln für Neue Musik. His discography encompasses solo recordings, notably a critically acclaimed interpretation of Mozart's Oboe Concerto in C major, chamber music traversing early and contemporary repertoire, and orchestral contributions with the NDR Radio Symphony Orchestra (saxophone), The Athmosphere Orchestra (Jazz), and contemporary music groups.

As a founding member of Concerto Köln until 1993, he has held the principal oboist position with Sir John Eliot Gardiner's The English Baroque Soloists and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique since 1994. No scientific awards or grant funding details are documented in the source material. The text provides no information regarding student advising or formal research projects, though his ongoing orchestral engagements suggest active professional involvement.