REED INFORMATION:

Jon Halvor Lund uses the Rieger 1A shape with his own profile. His model has a 30 mm tube, different from other models at Barton.

Jon places his 0,6mm wires at 6, 20 and 28 mm from the butt end. The tip is clipped at 28 mm from the collar, often shortened to 27,5mm depending on each reed’s characteristic. The reed setup is adapted to work well in a quite dry climate at sea level (Oslo, Norway), playing a “thick-wall” bassoon in an orchestra that tunes to a=442.

ABOUT JON HALVOR LUND: 

Jon Halvor Lund was appointed co-principal bassoon of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet Orchestra in 2014. He then came from the position as principal bassoon with the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra and has also had long-term contracts with the Oslo Philharmonic and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. An avid chamber musician, he is a member of Oslo Chamber Academy, a wind octet with double bass consisting of principal players from Oslo’s Philharmonic, Radio and Opera orchestras.

Soloist performances include concerti by Jolivet and Vivaldi with the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, and Mozart with both the Norwegian Opera Orchestra and the Orquesta Lirica Lado B in Buenos Aires. In Argentina, he has also presented the Latin American premieres of Norwegian pieces such as Egil Hovland’s “Agnus Dei” for bassoon and choir, Ståle Kleiberg’s “Undercurrents” for bassoon and strings, and Johan Kvandal’s “Legende”.

A dedicated teacher, Jon serves on the faculty of the Arctic University of Norway’s Conservatory of Music in Tromsø. He has earlier taught at the University of Stavanger and the Norwegian Academy of Music. Each year he teaches bassoon and chamber music at Oslo Chamber Academy’s own summer course. He has been invited as a guest teacher at Barratt Due’s Institute of Music in Oslo and Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, among others.

Jon received his Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Arts from the Norwegian Academy of Music, where his bassoon teachers were Torleiv Nedberg and Eirik Birkeland. He then went on with the Diploma programme at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, Germany, where he studied with Dag Jensen. He was a member of various youth orchestras, including the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain’s Academie de Musique du XXe siècle in Paris, Schleswig Holstein Music Festival Orchestra, Norwegian National Youth Orchestra and the Nordic Youth Orchestra.

Since 2018, is the board leader of the Norwegian Double Reed Society, DOR, of which he is also a founding member.

Jon currently plays a 14000-series Heckel bassoon with a Heckel CC 1 XL bocal.

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