Gustavo Núñez (born in Montevideo, 15 February 1965) is a 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 (1979–1981), the orchestra of the Staatstheater Darmstadt (1988–1989) and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra (1989–1995).
Currently, he holds a professorship at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, Germany. Since 2016, he is also a professor at the Reina Sofía School of Music’s Bassoon Chair in Madrid.
Núñez gives masterclasses and has made solo appearances in the US, Canada, various South American countries, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Finland, Australia, South Korea and Japan and is considered to be one of the greatest bassoonists of all time.
