Job description

Jon Halvor Lund is co-principal bassoonist at the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet and teaches bassoon at Barratt Due's Music Institute and at the Music Conservatory of the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. He is a member of the wind ensemble Oslo Chamber Academy and has in recent years substituted as principal bassoonist in orchestras including the Oslo Philharmonic, Stavanger Symphony, and the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Before joining the Opera Orchestra in 2014, he served as the principal bassoonist in the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra for ten years. He also worked for two years as assistant principal bassoon in the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, and had a one-year substitute position in the Oslo Philharmonic.

Jon Halvor studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover in Germany, with Torleiv Nedberg, Eirik Birkeland, and Dag Jensen as his bassoon instructors.

Additionally, he is a co-founder and chairman of DOR - Norwegian Double Reed Society - a newly established organization for oboists and bassoonists in Norway.