Frank de Bruine was born in Vlissingen, Holland. He studied the modern oboe with Heinz Friesen and the Baroque oboe with Bruce Haynes and Ku Ebbinge at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where he graduated with distinction and was awarded the Nicolai Prize.

Since then he has played with many period orchestras in Holland, England, Germany and France. He plays principal oboe for the Academy of Ancient Music (AAM), the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, The Hanover Band and Concerto Copenhagen.

De Bruine is also renowned as a soloist performing across Europe, the USA, South America and Japan. He has recorded several oboe concertos by Vivaldi and Albinoni with the AAM and Christopher Hogwood for Decca as well as recordings for the Wigmore Hall Live Label and Harmonia Mundi (also with the AAM). With The Hanover Band, he has recorded C.P.E. Bach’s oboe concerto in E flat major which was filmed in the Palace Sanssouci in Potsdam.

De Bruine is also an active chamber musician. He is a founding member of the Biedermeier Wind Quintet and regularly performs with the Schönbrunn Ensemble as well as with the Academy of Ancient Music Chamber Ensemble.

Frank de Bruine teaches early oboe at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and at the Utrecht Conservatory.