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Making a Bassoon Reed

Learn how one of todays most celebrated bassoon players- Gustavo Nüñez - makes his reeds. All the small tips and tricks that by the end of the day makes the big difference of how the reed plays.

Gustavo Nüñez is considered one of the best bassoonists of his generation. Gustavo Nüñez  was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1965.
Gustavo Nüñez was awarded in the International Competition in Geneva and won the Carl Maria von Weber Price in Munich, both in 1987. In 1988 he played at the Opera House in Darmstadt and in 1989 he was appointed principal Bassoon with the Bamberg Symphony. In 1995 Gustavo Nüñez joined the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, as it's principal Bassoon. Gustavo Nüñez was a teacher at the "Folkwang Hochschule" of Music in Essen, Germany, and since 1999 he holds a professorship at the Robert Schumann Academy of Music in Dusseldorf, Germany.