Lyndon Watts
| Lyndon Watts | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1976 (age 40–41) |
| Genres | Classical music |
| Website | lyndonwatts |
| Notable instruments | |
| Bassoon | |
Lyndon Jeffrey Frank Watts (born 19 January 1976) is an Australian bassoonist. He is principal bassoonist of the Münchner Philharmoniker and an academic teacher.
Watts studied the bassoon from 1988 and completed his senior school education at Newington College in 1993. He collaborated with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra from 1992 to 1993, winning prizes at Australian competitions. From 1994 he studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Eberhard Marschall and, in 2000, finished his master's degree with distinction.
In 1997 Watts won the international music competition pacem in terris of Bayreuth. In 2000 he was awarded the Yamaha Scholarship for Woodwind Instruments, which he used to study Baroque bassoon from 2001 to 2005 with Alberto Grazzi in Verona. He won a third prize at the ARD International Music Competition in 2002, he was the first Australian woodwind player in the competition's history to win a prize, and an "award for the best interpretation of the commissioned work by Heinz Holliger",Klaus-ur from Three Pieces for bassoon. Holliger's composition was recorded by the Bayerischer Rundfunk on the CD 21st Century Instrumental Solos, a collection of works commissioned by the ARD competition since 2002. On another recording of the prizewinners of 2002 he plays Mozart's bassoon concerto with the Münchener Kammerorchester.
Since 1998 Watts has been principal bassoonist of the Münchner Philharmoniker. He has also performed as a soloist with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Münchener Kammerorchester. At the 2004 conference of the International Double Reed Society (IDRS) he appeared with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He is a supporter of the Australian World Orchestra, founded in 2010.
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