Hanno Dönneweg, born in 1977, received his first bassoon lessons at the age of nine at the St.Georgen Youth Music School in the Black Forest.

From 1993 to 1997, he studied at the Baden Conservatory in Karlsruhe, the Cologne/Aachen University of Music, and the Stuttgart University of Music before moving to the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin in 1998. His teachers were Prof. Klaus Thunemann, Prof. Sergio Azzolini, Stefan Schweigert, and Oscar Bohórquez.

Hanno Dönneweg was a scholarship holder of the Herbert von Karajan Foundation of the Berlin Philharmonic, a scholarship holder of the German Music Competition and a member of the federal selection “Concerts of Young Artists”.

Hanno Dönneweg has performed at the festivals in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein, the Schwetzingen SWR Festival, and the Ittingen Whitsun Concerts (Switzerland). He regularly performs with the Ludwig Chamber Players, the Stuttgart Winds, and the SWR Swing Bassoon Ensemble.

Hanno Dönneweg has played as a soloist with the SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Black Forest Chamber Orchestra, the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen, the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim, the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, the Bavarian Chamber Orchestra Bad Brückenau and the Arcata Chamber Orchestra Stuttgart under conductors such as Eiji Oue, Tatsuya Shimono, Sigiswald Kuijken, Michael Sanderling, Johannes Moesus and Sir Roger Norrington.

At the invitation of the Japan Mozart Society, Hanno Dönneweg performed a concert in Tokyo in autumn 2022, appearing as soloist and conductor.

In recent years, numerous CD and radio productions have been created for tacet, cpo, Hänssler, Organum, Coviello, NDR, Deutschlandradio and SWR.

He also gives masterclasses in Germany, Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya), Taiwan, and the USA (Cincinnati). Since 2008, Hanno Dönneweg has been a lecturer at the renowned Affinis Festival in Japan. Also in September 2008, the first Bergstadtsommer (Bergstadt Summer) began in St. Georgen, a music festival co-founded by Hanno Dönneweg, which now takes place annually in the Black Forest town.

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In July 2014, Hanno Dönneweg was awarded the first Excellence Prize by the Association of Friends and Supporters of the SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. The prize money enabled Andreas N. Tarkmann to create new arrangements of pieces for bassoon and orchestra, which are now being presented for the first time on the CDs "bassoon/FAGOTT!/basson" Vols. 1 and 2.

Since August 2002, Hanno Dönneweg has been principal bassoonist of the SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, since 2016 in the same position with the new SWR Symphony Orchestra and from 2014 to 2023 its orchestra chairman.

Since 2020, Hanno Dönneweg has been arranging numerous new works for "his" instrument, expanding the bassoon's narrow repertoire. These works are published by Fahora Verlag, making them accessible to all bassoonists.

As a solo bassoonist, Hanno Dönneweg has also performed as a guest with the Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Munich State Orchestra, Hessian Radio, Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, German Symphony Orchestra, German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen, Camerata Salzburg, Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heil-

bronn, SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden/Freiburg, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich under conductors such as Kurt Masur, Simon Rattle, Gustavo Dudamel, Franz Welser-Möst, Paavo Järvi, Herbert Blomstedt, Teodor Currentzis, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla and Robin Ticciati.