Biography
Cristina Gómez Godoy took her place in the Staatskapelle Berlin as an oboist at twenty-one and has maintained an active solo career ever since. Conductor Daniel Barenboim has actively supported her development and has appeared with her on numerous occasions.
She entered the world in Linares, Spain, in 1990. Her training began at the conservatories of Linares, Jaén, and Seville, continued at the Academia de Estudios Orquestales of the Barenboim-Said Foundation in Seville, and concluded at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Rostock under Gregor Witt. In 2008 she joined the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, where she performed oboe solos. Two years after that engagement she attracted immediate attention by winning the post of solo English hornist with the Staatskapelle Berlin at the age of twenty-one; Barenboim elevated her to principal oboist two years later. Chamber-music collaborations with the conductor have taken her to the Lucerne Festival, the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Musikverein in Vienna, and the Philharmonie in Berlin. From 2015 onward she served as an adjunct professor at Berlin’s University of the Arts. Among the distinctions she received early in her career was designation as an ECHO Rising Star for the 2020/21 season.
That recognition opened further European engagements, yet Gómez had already accumulated substantial experience. She has performed with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, appeared with the Orchestra Sinfonica do Estado de São Paulo at Sala São Paulo, and played for a period with Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. She has also served as principal oboist of the Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival. In addition to Barenboim, her chamber-music partners have included violinist Guy Braunstein, cellists Kian Soltani and Pablo Ferrández, and the Calidore String Quartet. Under an exclusive agreement with Warner Classics she released her first solo album in 2022, Mozart, Strauss: Oboe Concertos, recorded with Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
She entered the world in Linares, Spain, in 1990. Her training began at the conservatories of Linares, Jaén, and Seville, continued at the Academia de Estudios Orquestales of the Barenboim-Said Foundation in Seville, and concluded at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Rostock under Gregor Witt. In 2008 she joined the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, where she performed oboe solos. Two years after that engagement she attracted immediate attention by winning the post of solo English hornist with the Staatskapelle Berlin at the age of twenty-one; Barenboim elevated her to principal oboist two years later. Chamber-music collaborations with the conductor have taken her to the Lucerne Festival, the Salzburg Mozarteum, the Musikverein in Vienna, and the Philharmonie in Berlin. From 2015 onward she served as an adjunct professor at Berlin’s University of the Arts. Among the distinctions she received early in her career was designation as an ECHO Rising Star for the 2020/21 season.
That recognition opened further European engagements, yet Gómez had already accumulated substantial experience. She has performed with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, appeared with the Orchestra Sinfonica do Estado de São Paulo at Sala São Paulo, and played for a period with Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. She has also served as principal oboist of the Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival. In addition to Barenboim, her chamber-music partners have included violinist Guy Braunstein, cellists Kian Soltani and Pablo Ferrández, and the Calidore String Quartet. Under an exclusive agreement with Warner Classics she released her first solo album in 2022, Mozart, Strauss: Oboe Concertos, recorded with Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
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