Oboe and reeds

Sandra Sinsch was born in Saarbrücken/Germany and became an extraordinary student at the Musikhochschule Mannheim at the age of 14 where she studied with the legendary German oboist Winfried Liebermann. Directly after her school leaving examination, she entered the Rhenanian State Philharmonic Orchestra and worked later as principal in the New Westfalian Symphony Orchestra. She has won the competition of the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe.

Feeling a lack of individualism and artistic challenge in the modern orchestra on the one hand and fascinated by period performance on the other hand, Sandra decided to change her musical life completely in 2005. She started to study period oboes with Carole Wiesmann at the Schola cantorum basiliensis and went on with Ann-Kathrin Brüggemann in the Conservatoire Strasbourg and the Institute for Early Music of the Musikhochschule Trossingen. She played as principal in the Jeune Orchestre atlantique under Philippe Hereweghe. Sandra is working as a freelance oboist on period instruments and performs with ensembles as Le Concert Lorrain, Lauttencompagney Berlin, Das Neue Orchester, l’arpa festante and others. She has also joined in several radio-and CD-productions.

Sandra Sinsch got scholarships from Germanys High Talented Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) and the Early Music Competiton of the German Radio Saarländischer Rundfunk. She is also working as a freelance journalist and author.