At the age of eighteen, he was appointed solo oboe of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (Südwestrundfunk) under the direction of Sir Roger Norrington and Georges Prêtre, a position he held from 2008 to 2016.
He shared with Jacques Zoon the Japanese premiere of Gyorgy Ligeti's Double Concerto with Seiji Ozawa's orchestra in Matsumoto in 2013 and participated in the ARTE program "Stars de Demain" presented by Rolando Villazón in Berlin.
He also leads numerous masterclasses in the United States, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Taiwan, China and Japan.
Philippe Tondre was appointed a professor of Oboe at the Curtis Institute of Music in April 2022, beginning with the 2022–2023 school year, succeeding Woodhams there as well.
June of the same year marked his debut at Carnegie Hall, New York where he performed two concertos from Johann Sebastian Bach with the Orchestra of St Luke's.