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PIERRE GOMES

bassoon
Biography

Bassoonist Pierre Gomes studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de musique in Lyon with Carlo Colombo before being accepted to the Munich Philharmonic Academy. He performed as member of the Verbier Festival Orchestra and of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra before joining the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra in 2011 and being invited to join the National Orchestra of Metz in 2012. He was also
invited by Claudio Abbado to play in the esteemed conductor’s Orchestra Mozart Bologna. Gomes has performed under the direction Bernard Haitink, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Valery Gergiev, Daniel Harding, Herbert Blomstedt, Semyon Bychkov and Kurt Masur, and has collaborated with François Leleux, Christian Zacharias, Martin Fröst and Renaud Capuçon. He is a professor at the Luxembourg Conservatory and has been invited to lead masterclasses in Colombia, Israel and Palestine.