Biografie
Hans Agrega was born in Venezuela in 1981. At the age of 14 he took up his musical studies at the Universidad de los Andes in Mérida, Venezuela. A few years later he moved to Germany to study at the Robert Schumann Musikhochschule in Düsseldorf in the class of Gustavo Nuñez. During his studies he also took private lessons with Klaus Thunemann. He graduated from university with the best possible grade. At the moment he is a postgraduate student at the same university, doing his Konzertexamen. In 2004 he won the Schmolz-Bickenbach competition (first prize and the audience award).
Already at an early age he played in the Simón Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela under Gustavo Dudamel, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Claudio Abbado and others. At the same time he worked in the most respected orchestras of the country. Furthermore he collaborated with several professional orchestras in Europe, among them the Berliner Philharmoniker , Bayrisches Staatsoper München , WDR (Rundfunk Orchester Köln) , SWR (Rundfunk Orchester Stuttgart) , Luzern Festival Orchester , Orquesta Mozart , etc. Currently he is playing the double bassoon in the Tonhalle Orchester in Zurich, Switzerland, and works as a teacher for double bassoon at the ZHdK (Zurich school of art).