Tobias Schiessler is a member of the Lower Saxony State Orchestra Hanover and a lecturer in trombone at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. With his quintet he won the 1999 International Competition for Brass Ensembles in Passau, Germany, and in 2004 was a prize-winner at the Frank Smith International Trombone Competition in Oslo.
In July last year 2012, he received the 1st prize of the Ernest Bloch International Music Competition 2012 in London.
In 2008 he was soloist at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, where he performed the German premiere of her work Metamorphosen with Sofia Gubaidulina.