13 Facts About Lyndon Watts

Lyndon Jeffrey Frank Watts was born on 19 January 1976 and is an Australian bassoonist.

Lyndon Watts is principal bassoonist of the Munchner Philharmoniker and an academic teacher.

Lyndon Watts collaborated with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra from 1992 to 1993, winning prizes at Australian competitions.

In 1997 Lyndon Watts won the international music competition pacem in terris of Bayreuth.

Lyndon Watts 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.

Since 1998 Lyndon Watts has been principal bassoonist of the Munchner Philharmoniker.

Lyndon Watts has performed as a soloist with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Munchener Kammerorchester.

Lyndon Watts is a supporter of the Australian World Orchestra, founded in 2010.

Lyndon Watts was one of 16 bassoonists in the concert The Proud Bassoon, celebrating William Waterhouse on 16 April 2011 in Wigmore Hall.

Lyndon Watts played Waterhouse's arrangement for two bassoon choirs of Giovanni Gabrieli's Sonata Pian' e Forte, Anton Reicha's Quintet for bassoon and strings, on an 1807 instrument from Waterhouse's collection, and the Divertissement for bassoon and string quintet of Jean Francaix, dedicated to Waterhouse.

Lyndon Watts taught the bassoon at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Munchen between 2002 and 2007, and has worked as a professor at the Bern University of the Arts since October 2005.

Lyndon Watts has conducted regular courses in Switzerland and Germany, and masterclasses in England, Portugal, Australia, Japan, China and Korea, such as a masterclass of the Australasian Double Reed Society in 2008.

Lyndon Watts has been a teacher for the Junge Munchner Philharmonie.