Uruguayan b*oonistFor the baseball player, see Gustavo Núñez (baseball).

Gustavo Núñez (born in Montevideo, February 15, 1965) is a Uruguayan b*oonist trained at Musikhochschule Hannover (Prof. Klaus Thunemann) and the Royal College of Music (Kerry Camden). He has served as principal b*oon of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, together with Ronald Karten, since 1995.

Núñez was previously a member of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra (1979–81), the orchestra of the Staatstheater Darmstadt (1988–1989) and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra (1989–95).

Currently, he holds a professorship at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Núñez gives mastercl*es and has made solo appearances in the US, Canada, various South American countries, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Finland, Australia, South Korea and *an and is considered to be one of the leading b*oonists of his generation.

Compe*ion record

• 1987 Geneva IMC, Prix Suisse.
• 1987 Carl Maria von Weber IBC, 1st prize

Recordings

• Vivaldi - 6 B*oon Concertos. Gustavo Núñez, Academy of St Martin in the Fields. PENTATONE PTC 5186539 (2016)
• The Barber of Neville. Wind concertos by Howard Blake. Sir Neville Marriner, Andrew Marriner, Jaime Martin, Gustavo Núñez, Academy of St Martin in the Fields. PENTATONE PTC 5186506 (2013)
• Mozart - Wind Concertos. Jacob Slagter, Emily Beynon, Alexei Ogrintchouk, Henk Rubingh, Gustavo Núñez, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra. PENTATONE PTC 5186079 (2005)

References

• Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra