Georg Oyen was born in Cologne in 1960. In 1974, he received the NRW Ministry of Culture's sponsorship award and subsequently became a young student with Prof. J. Starker in Essen. After finishing school, he studied sound engineering and violoncello at the Detmold Academy of Music (sound engineer diploma 1983). In 1982 he received a scholarship from the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes".

As a cellist of the "César Franck Quartet", he studied with the Amadeus Quartet at the Cologne Academy of Music, as well as with the "Bartók Quartet" at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest from 1983-85. He has been a member of the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra since 1988. In 1991, on his initiative, the chamber music series "Unter der Glaspyramide" (Under the Glass Pyramid) was created in co-operation with the Kreissparkasse Heilbronn, which he has coordinated artistically ever since. Since 1992 he has taught chamber music at the Landesmusikakademie Baden-Württemberg, the Hessische Akademie für musisch-kulturelle Erwachsenenbildung Burg Fürsteneck, and at the "Camp musical de La Part Dieu", Switzerland, of which he was musical director for more than ten years. In 1998, he was engaged for the first time as a string teacher with the Federal Student Orchestra.

In the same year, he was accepted into George Solti's "World Orchestra for Peace". Since 2005, he has been entrusted with the planning and implementation of music cruises as artistic advisor to the Deilmann shipping company (MS Deutschland), and is also successful as a publisher and arranger.