Fascinated by eighteen century repertoire, Antoine Torunczyk soon specialized in early oboe performance practice, first in the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Lyon under guidance of Michel Henry, then in Amsterdam’s Sweelinck Conservatorium, with Alfredo Bernardini. He graduated in 2000, and the same year he obtained the First Prize in the baroque oboe competition in Halle (Germany). 

Currently Principal Oboe in the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra as well as in Concerto Copenhagen, he frequently collaborates with many of the main period instruments orchestras in Europe. 

Antoine is also a very active chamber musician, and co-founder of l’Assemblée des Honnestes Curieux, winner of the Premio Bomporti Early Music Competition in Rovereto (Italy), as well as the baroque ensemble I Dissonanti, together with musicians such as Sébastien Marq, Amandine Beyer, Javier Zafra, Tami Troman, Chiaopin Kuo.  

He has been taking part in numerous recordings, as an orchestral player or as a chamber musician or soloist : Pierre Philidor Suites for oboe & BC (Zig Zag Territoires), Handel’s sonatas of several parts (ZZT), Bach double concerto (with violin player Amandine Beyer) and concerto for oboe d’amore (Alpha)…

Antoine is very involved in pedagogy and is currently teaching early oboe in the Early Music Department of the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMdP), and has been recently appointed in the Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag (NL) where he will start teaching baroque oboe from September on. He also teaches every year in the Vielklang summer course in Tübingen. He is webmaster of the Hautboy Companion, a pedagogical website about early oboe. 

During the Masterclasses in the Internationaal Barok Festival Zutphen, every aspect of baroque oboe playing will be approached, from technical to stylistical. Pupils of all levels are accepted and should bring their own instruments (including all instruments of the oboe family if they own them) and reed making tools.