Sophie Stein has been playing the oboe since the age of nine and received her first lessons from Detlef Groß. She was enthusiastic about orchestral playing from an early age and was initially a member of the NRW State Youth Orchestra in 2014 and the National Youth Orchestra from 2015 to 2019. There, she also had the opportunity to take part in various projects including under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle, Alondra de la Parra, Kirill Petrenko, Elias Grandy and Paavo Järvi.
Sophie Stein is a multiple national prizewinner of Jugend musiziert and was awarded a special prize in the category ‚Best Interpretation of a Contemporary Work‘ in the WESPE competition in 2018. From 2016 to 2018, this young oboist was a junior student of Kai Frömbgen at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf and the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, where she completed her bachelor’s degree in 2023. In 2015 and 2017, she was given the opportunity to perform as a soloist with an orchestra: First as the winner of the Bühne frei competition with the Niederrheinische Sinfoniker and later with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen as part of a charity concert. From, 2018 she was a scholarship holder of the Dr Carl Dörken Foundation for two years, in 2022 solo oboist of the Moritzburg Festival Academy and in 2024 she participated in a project as solo oboist under the direction of Daniel Barenboim. Since the 2023 autumn term, Sophie Stein has been studying for her master’s degree with Viola Wilmsen at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin.
