Joost Bosdijk

Bassoon

Member since 2007, Professor at the Royal College of Music

‘Classical music wasn’t really part of my upbringing, but I remember loving hearing it. A friend played clarinet: rather than waiting for her to finishing practising, I joined the same wind band on clarinet (the waiting list for saxophone was too long). A year and lots of begging my parents later, I bought a bassoon with money earned with weekend and holiday jobs.’

Joost Bosdijk started playing bassoon aged 15 and entered the Royal College of Music Junior Department in The Hague two years later. After completing the undergraduate course he studied at the Music College Hanns Eisler with Klaus Thunemann. In his student years Joost was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands and later the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, as a bassoonist and contra bassoonist. Among others, he has played with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Mahler Chamber Orchestra. After four years as second bassoon of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Joost came to the LSO.

As a chamber musician Joost has played in the Delft and Oxford Chamber Music festivals and in ensembles from the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the LSO. He has played many concerts with bassoonist Bram van Sambeek, with whom he also recorded Sophia Gubaidulina’s Duo for two bassoons on Van Sambeek’s CD Kaleidoscope.