Biography
Canadian oboist Aleh Remezau is renowned for his “sensuous and exuberant”
performances (The Millbrook Independent) and “incredibly expressive” playing
(Vancouver Sun). Having established himself as a sought-after orchestral musician, he
has performed in major Canadian venues as well as concert halls in the United States,
Austria and the United Kingdom. He has appeared with the New York Philharmonic,
Toronto Symphony Orchestra and National Arts Centre Orchestra as well as guest Principal Oboe with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, National Ballet Orchestra, Canadian Opera Company and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. He appears regularly with the Esprit Orchestra, performing as both Principal Oboist and solo English horn.
After joining the Hamilton Philharmonic as Principal Oboe, Mr. Remezau’s playing has been highlighted in major works such as Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite and Rimsky Korsakov’s Scheherazade. During his first season, he was a featured musician on the orchestra’s video broadcasts of Mozart’s Oboe Quartet and Tomasi’s Evocations for Solo Oboe. In the 2023-24 season, he performed Concerto for Oboe and Strings by Ralph Vaughan Williams as soloist.
While living in New York City, Mr. Remezau has performed numerous times on oboe and English horn with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of world class conductors including Jaap van Zweden, Manfred Honeck, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Neeme Jarvi and others. With the New York Philharmonic, he can be heard on their 2017
Grammy nominated recording of Christopher Rouse’s Symphony No. 4.
Mr. Remezau was an inaugural member of The Orchestra Now (TON) – a training orchestra based at Bard College, New York. With TON, he was a frequent performer at Alice Tully Hall, The Metropolitan Museum, and Carnegie Hall. In 2018, he was one of select few musicians invited to perform at the renowned Grafenegg Festival in Austria.
Mr. Remezau also extensively performs outside of the orchestra, seeking out different ways to connect and share his art with audiences. As an active chamber musician, he has performed in festivals including the Scotia Festival, Sweetwater Music Festival and Big Lake Festival. As a member of The Happenstancers, an adventurous Toronto-based chamber ensemble featuring “an obscene amount of talent”(TheWholeNote), Mr. Remezau has brought “considerable virtuosity” to works for oboe and English horn by Oliver Knussen and Elliott Carter, presenting concerts hailed as “bizarrely eclectic, ...very intriguing and rewarding” (John Gilks, operaramblings). He has also performed as a pit musician on Broadway in the musical Wicked, Mirvish's production of Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 as well as the Shaw Festival.
Aleh Remezau began his musical studies on piano, and his study of the oboe at fifteen. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the Manhattan School of Music. He is an alumnus of The Music Academy of the West and Domaine Forget.