He owes his international reputation largely to his first recordings (among others a CD dedicated to
Antonio Pasculli, the “Paganini of the Oboe”) which were received with great acclaim, and brought engagements at various festivals and with major orchestras in Berlin, Rotterdam, Paris, Warsaw, Lugano, Geneva, Zurich, Basel, Milan, London, Japan and the United States. Besides being a soloist, he is an enthusiastic performer varying from duo to baroque ensemble, playing on period instruments, and from wind octet (
Ottetto Classico Italiano) to larger string-wind groups and
contemporary music included improvisation. Composers like
Sylvano Bussotti,
Niccolò Castiglioni, with works that represent the
oboe repertoire of the last three centuries at its very best. Omar Zoboli has been oboe soloist of the
Radio Orchestras of Lugano (RSI) and
Naples (RAI), the
St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra and the
Kammerorchester Basel. He has played baroque and classical oboes with
Concentus Musicus Wien (
Nikolaus Harnoncourt),
Il Giardino Armonico (
Giovanni Antonini),
Scintilla Orchester Zürich,
I Barocchisti (
Diego Fasolis). Since 1991, he has also been conducting with great success his own projects with large wind ensembles and orchestras. ==Teaching, master classes==