Dudu Carmel serves as Principal Oboist of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and as a faculty member of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University. He was a winner of the 1996 International Oboe Competition in Toulon, France and the 1990 François Shapira Prize in Israel. He has performed as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Ivan Fischer, the Quebec Symphony Orchestra under Yoav Talmi, and with orchestras in Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, France, and Poland. Carmel has participated in chamber music festivals in Israel, Germany, Switzerland, and Brazil. He regularly gives masterclasses, including at the Oboe Festival in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Carmel studied at Tel Aviv’s Rubin Academy of Music and received his KA diploma from the Karlsruhe University of Music. He is a founding member of the Israel Woodwind Quintet.