Alexei Utkin

Alexei Utkin is an outstanding Russian oboe player, a virtuoso soloist and director of the Hermitage Chamber Orchestra, professor of the Moscow State Conservatoire. His instrument with an extended range was specially designed by the famous French oboe maker Alain de Gourdon (head of the F.Lorée). Since 2003 Alexei Utkin and the Hermitage Chamber Orchestra have been recording with Caro Mitis. This SA–CD is the first of the three albums with the works by J.S. Bach. Some of them are original compositions with the soloing oboe, the others are transcriptions made by Alexei Utkin