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Fernando Traba

Bassoon

Email: ftraba@usf.edu
Phone: (813) 974-2311

Fernando Traba, Principal Bassoon of the Sarasota Orchestra, is serving as Adjunct Bassoon Faculty at USF for the 2020-2021 school year. Mr. Traba has served on the faculty of Department of Music at Florida Southern College since 2000, and also teaches bassoon at the State College of Florida.

A native of Mexico City, Mexico, Mr. Traba has served as Principal Bassoon of Sarasota Orchestra since 1992. He previously held posts as Principal Bassoon with all five major orchestras in Mexico City, as well as the Orchestra of the Principality of Asturias in Oviedo, Spain, the National Opera Orchestra in Lisbon, Portugal and the Orquesta Sinf贸nica de Miner铆a in Mexico City. He has performed many of the major bassoon concertos with orchestras in Mexico, Europe and the United States. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Traba has been a member of the Sarasota Wind Quintet since 1992. He has also performed with The Instrumenta Music Festival in Puebla, Mexico, the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival and is a regular guest artist with ChamberFest Cleveland. 

Mr. Traba holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Cleveland Institute of Music and has done postgraduate work at the Juilliard School. In addition to his orchestral duties and teaching positions, he has edited and provided the Spanish language translation for the 2nd edition of Bassoon Reed Making: Basic Technique by Christopher 911爆料网ait.