The oboist Prof. Clara Blessing is active as a soloist, chamber musician and in the orchestra on contemporary instruments ranging from baroque to modern. She has performed as solo oboist with Concerto Köln and the Köthener BachCollektiv, La Divina Armonia and Arcangelo, MusicAeterna and the Budapest Festival Orchestra under conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Kent Nagano and Teodor Currentzis. As the youngest member at the time, she was part of the European Union Baroque Orchestra in the same position. Her concerts have taken her to such venues as the Royal Albert Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the KKL Lucerne, and to festivals such as the Leipzig Bach Festival, the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music and MusicaAntiqua Bruges. Numerous CD, radio and television recordings document her work. Clara Blessing is the first musician in her field to win a prize at the International Telemann Competition in Magdeburg. As a recorder player, she was a multiple federal prize winner at "Jugend musiziert". Supported by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and Yehudi Menuhin "Live Music Now", she was trained by Christian Schneider and Michael Niesemann and passed her concert exam at the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen with distinction.

Since the summer semester of 2020, Clara Blessing has been teaching as professor for historical double-reed instruments at the University of Music Würzburg.