A laureate of the 2017 ARD International Music Competition, who was appointed Professor of Oboe at the Royal College of Music, London, in 2018, Juliana Koch is Principal Oboe of the London Symphony Orchestra. She studied with François Leleux in Munich and Fabian Menzel in Frankfurt, and has also worked with Jacques Tys in Paris; during her time in Munich, she also studied baroque oboe with Saskia Fikentscher. She has been guest Principal Oboe with some of the world’s most renowned orchestras, including the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and Los Angeles Philharmonic, has held Principal Oboe positions with the Royal Danish Orchestra and Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, and has worked with such leading conductors as Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Chailly, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, Zubin Mehta, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Kirill Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. At the Berliner Philharmonie she made her soloistic début in 2019, performing the Oboe Concerto by Richard Strauss with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. She has also appeared with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks at the Philharmonie im Gasteig, Munich, Münchener Kammerorchester, Tapiola Sinfonietta, and Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. Her discography as a soloist includes the première recording of the Oboe Concerto by Enjott Schneider. As an active chamber musician, she has performed at prestigious festivals around the world, including the Huntington Estate Music Festival, Australia, Lucerne Festival, and Bachfest Leipzig, and has appeared in recital at the Konzerthalle Bamberg, NDR Hannover, and Deutschlandfunk Köln. Juliana Koch plays a Marigaux M2 oboe.