Steven Braunstein

Steven is contra bassoonist and former member of the San Francisco Symphony. In the past he played in the Toronto Symphony and the Orquestra de la Communitat Valenciano in Spain. He studied at the California Institute of the Arts and the State University of New York. He has taught at the University of Toronto and the San Francisco State University.

Steven helped us by testing a prototype of our gouger for bassoon.

José Masmano

Oboist in the Orquestra Ciudad Granada, Spain

 

I am Associate Principal Oboe and Cor Anglais of the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada (Granada City Orchestra) since 1996, theacher of Oboe and Orchestral Repertoire at the Conservatoire of Music in Aragon since 2009 and President of the AFOES (Spanish Double Reed Society) since its foundation in 2011.

I play a Püchner Oboe model 733-C and make my reeds with machines of Reed Machines.