For the baseball player, see Gustavo Nunez (baseball).
Gustavo Núñez (born in Montevideo, February 15, 1965) is an Uruguayan bassoonist trained at Musikhochschule Hannover (Prof. Klaus Thunemann) and the Royal College of Music (Kerry Camden). He has served as principal bassoon 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.
Competition record:
1987 Geneva IMC, Prix Suisse.,
1987 Carl Maria von Weber IBC, 1st prize
