Andreas Mendel
FranzSchubert: Great C-Major Sinfonie
Concert LIVE recording: Poschner opens the ‘OÖ Stiftskonzerte – Matinee live’ series
Date: 31 May 2026, St Florian - Ansfelden
Performers: Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Conductor: Markus Poschner
Organiser: OÖ Stiftskonzerte / Recording: ORF
Bruckner Orchestra Linz
University Mozarteum
Bass-oboe
specialist in the bass oboe and baritone oboe (as a guest musician with, amongst others, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
About Andreas Mendel
Andreas Mendel, is principal oboe of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Austria. He was born in Hannover and studied with Peter Kiggen, Professor Jochen Müller-Brincken & Prof. Michael Niesemann in Würzburg and Professor Emanuel Abbühl in Mannheim.
Mendel guests with numerous orchestras, including the Deutsches Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Kammerorchester Basel, Hamburger Staatsoper, Camerata Salzburg and Münchner Rundfunkorchester. He has worked with many renowned conductors, including Marc Minkowski, Christopher Hogwood, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Dennis Russell Davies and Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
Alongside his work as an orchestral musician, Mendel dedicates much of his time to chamber music, gives regular masterclasses at home and abroad and coaches on various chamber music courses.
Although the Master Edition has only just been published, Andreas Mendel has already been invited by various institutions (Anton Bruckner University, Linz / Upper Austrian Music School Association) to give lectures on his books and in particular on the subject: Air-flow & Support.
Andreas Mendel was appointed Senior Lecturer in Oboe (Instrumental Pedagogy) at the Mozarteum University in the winter semester of 2025/26 and is leading his own class.
Please see my exercise book for saxophone & our exercise book for bassoon & exercise book for oboe.
author & publisher
The Technical Basics of Oboe Playing:
Saxophone - Technical Basics
Bassoon - Technical Basics