Spanish oboist Mariano Esteban Barco was born in 1994 in the town of Calanda in the Aragón region. At the age of ten, he became a junior student of Vicente Llimerá Dus and Miguel Enguidanos Tomas in Valencia. He completed his bachelor's degree at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid under Hansjörg Schellenberger and Víctor Ánchel.
Mariano Esteban Barco won his first prizes at Spain's national youth music competition at an early age. His most recent competition successes include participation in the semi-finals of the 66th ARD International Music Competition in Munich in 2017 and second prize at the VII Giuseppe Tomassini International Oboe Competition in Italy.
He gained orchestral experience with the Spanish National Youth Orchestra, the European Youth Orchestra, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim.
He moved to Germany and received his first contract as principal oboist at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Since then, he has played with renowned orchestras such as the Hamburg State Opera, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin State Orchestra, Konzerthaus Berlin, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra...
As a soloist, Mariano Esteban Barco has performed with the Valencia Symphony Orchestra, the North German Philharmonic Orchestra Rostock, the Rostov Symphony Orchestra (Russia), the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, and the Munich Chamber Orchestra.
Worth mentioning is his solo debut at the Berlin Philharmonic with the German Symphony Orchestra in Mozart's concerto.
In August 2025, he will begin his contract as principal oboist with the Staatskapelle Dresden.