Dr Niamh Dell is an oboist and researcher specialising in complex and virtuosic new music. With a career spanning Australia, the United Kingdom, and Europe, Niamh has performed in venues such as the Sydney Opera House, the Kölner Philharmonie, and the Hessischer Rundfunk, as well as festivals including Gaudeamus Muziekweek in Utrecht and Strasbourg’s Musica Festival.

Niamh attended the Sydney Conservatorium of Music before graduating from the University of Western Australia with first class honours and the Sir Harold Bailey Memorial Prize, the Lady Callaway Medal, and the Royal Overseas League Honours Prize in Music Performance. She undertook her Masters with the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt, before commencing her PhD in solo contemporary oboe performance at the University of York in the UK.

Niamh is a member of Strasbourg-based new music collective lovemusic, winners of the highly prestigious 2025 Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Ensemble Prize. She has collaborated on both solo and ensemble projects with numerous composers such as Stephen de Filippo, Des Clarke, Alex Harker and Santiago Díez Fischer. Her practice research centres on the phenomenology of contemporary performance experienced through the lens of a layered and sedimented musical habitus. She commenced a Creative Research Fellowship with The Forrest Foundation in 2024.