Imogen Triner

Imogen Triner studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Neil Black and Gordon Hunt on the oboe and Christopher Taylor and Anthony Robson on the recorder. She won many of the major prizes, including the Paddy Purcell Prize for all wind instruments. She was awarded a Countess of Munster Scholarship and then a Winston Churchill Fellowship to continue her studies with the Berlin Philharmonic’s solo oboist, Lothar Koch.

Imogen Triner is one of Britain’s foremost oboe soloists and performances have included major concertos with the Tivoli Festival Symphony Orchestra in Denmark, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Turku Philharmonic and Kuopio Symphony Orchestras – both in Finland, the Kansas Chamber Orchestra, the National Italian Symphony Orchestra, the Belgian National Radio and Television Orchestra, the Norkoping Chamber Orchestra in Sweden, the Northern Sinfonia and many other orchestras in the UK. Many of these performances have been recorded for the radio including the Gordon Jacob Suite for Treble Recorder with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra.

As a chamber musician Imogen has performed highly acclaimed recitals in major London venues and in festivals throughout the UK. She has toured all over Scandinavia, America and Japan both as a recitalist, giving master classes, and with her Oboe Quartet.

In the UK Imogen works regularly with many chamber groups and chamber orchestras and has recorded various concertos. These include Vivaldi’s C major Oboe Concerto and Sopranino Recorder Concerto, Bach’s Double Oboe and Violin Concerto and Brandenburg 4 Concerto. Imogen is the oboist in the oboe quartet ‘oboeworks’. She has had various works written especially for her and the quartet. oboeworks has recorded 2 Cds – one including 2 Schubert Quartet arrangements made especially for the quartet when they were invited to the International Schubert Festival in Denmark.

“….Beautiful oboe playing …singing with authority and seduction. Colin Matthews oboe quartet was soulful and filled with lyrical legato playing” Berlingske Tidende Copenhagen.

“ Excellentl y performed…Elegance and control together with a dashing and brilliant vitality….greeted by ovation.” La Stampa RAI Turin

“…more like an operatic diva, heavy in theatrical expression… a joy to listen to…Triner plays the oboe really wonderfully.” Politiken Copenhagen

“The Crème de la Crème” The London Evening Standard.