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Asger Svendsen is a Danish performer and professor of bassoon and chamber music. He was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Music (RDAM) as a bassoonist and pianist.
Apart from teaching at the RDAM, he is also professor at the Music Academy in Malmö, Sweden where he is in addition leader of the woodwind education. [1]
Has played in most major Danish orchestras, including being solo bassoonist in the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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