CRISTINA GÓMEZ GODOY

After more than a decade as principal oboe of the Staatskapelle Berlin, Cristina Gómez Godoy combines her work with the German orchestra with an international career as a soloist that has taken her to the world’s leading classical-music venues.

Gómez Godoy has given recitals at New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Pierre Boulez Saal and Konzerthaus in Berlin, Vienna’s Musikverein, London’s Barbican Centre, the Philharmonie de Paris, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, Stockholm’s Konserthuset and Dortmund’s Konzerthaus, where she was artist-in-residence from 2021 to 2024. She was also selected by the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) as a “Rising Star” for the 2020–21 season.

As a soloist, she has appeared with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Festival Strings Lucerne, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, the Saarländisches Staatsorchester, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Cologne Chamber Orchestra and the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.

In Spain, she has performed as a guest soloist with the country’s leading orchestras, including the Spanish National Orchestra, the Barcelona Symphony and National Orchestra of Catalonia, the Castile and León Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville, ADDA Simfònica Alicante and the Navarra Symphony Orchestra.

In 2022 she released her debut album with Warner Classics alongside the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and Daniel Barenboim, performing the oboe concertos by Wolfgang A. Mozart and Richard Strauss, and receiving outstanding reviews from specialist publications such as BBC Music Magazine (“Hypnotises the ears”) and Gramophone (“Godoy’s sound is rich and velvety”).

A regular presence on the chamber-music scene, Cristina frequently collaborates with artists such as Michael Barenboim, Guy Braunstein, Pablo Ferrández, Sophie Dervaux, Kian Soltani, Sara Ferrández, the Calidore String Quartet, the Staatskapelle Berlin String Quartet and the Castalian String Quartet at festivals including the Ravinia Festival (USA), the Lucerne Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Canada’s Interplay Festival, Liceo de Cámara XXI and the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.

She has received prizes at international competitions such as the ARD International Music Competition in Munich — including the special prize awarded by BR-Klassik (Bavarian Radio) — and the Markneukirchen International Competition (Germany), among others. From 2015 to 2025 she served as adjunct professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK). Since the 2024–25 season she has been a professor at the Orchestral Studies Academy of the Barenboim-Said Foundation in Seville.