Johannes Grosso was recently appointed Principal Oboe of the MSO. He has enjoyed an illustrious career in Europe, as solo oboe in the Frankfurt Opera House and as a member of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, having previously spent four years with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, as well as regularly appearing as a guest principal with leading orchestras such as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Bamberger Symphoniker.
As a concerto soloist, he won the 2014 Prague Spring International Music Competition. He also won the Giuseppe Tomassini International Competition (Italy) and Asian Double Reed Society Competition (Taiwan) and received second prize in the Fernand Gillet- Hugo Fox Competition (USA), as well as the Végh Sándor Competition Prize (Hungary). These successes led to solo appearances working with conductors such as Christoph von Dohnányi, Daniele Gatti, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Tommas Guggeis, and with orchestras including the Czech Radio Orchestra, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, the Schleswig- Holstein Music Festival Orchestra and New Bach Collegium Leipzig.
Johannes also gives masterclasses and in 2018 he was appointed to the Norwegian Music Academy in Oslo.
