Naomi Hassoun
Naomi Hassoun
Naomi is a recorder and baroque bassoon player, currently studying towards her master's degree at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.
Naomi completed her bachelor's (2022) and Master’s degree (2025) in recorder performance at the JAMD and completed a year of studies under Prof. Pedro Memelsdorff at ESMUC, Barcelona.
Naomi co-founded the “Nari Baroque Ensemble, Selected as “Fabulous Fringe” at the Utrecht Early Music Festival 2025, and was the winner of the Göttingen Händel Competition 2024 (main prize and special prize for “Music and Space”). In recent years, she has been performing in concert series, festivals and opera productions with her group and as a soloist. Naomi performed “Dido and Aeneas" by Purcell with the Bertini Choir in 2024.
In 2017 Naomi won the first prize at the International Recorder Competition in Nordhorn, Germany. In the years 2018, 2019 and 2022 she won several awards at the TARF competition, including two first prizes, and she performed a solo recital at the festival's 2023 edition. Naomi is a recipient of the Sharett (AICF) Foundation Scholarships and the Ronen Foundation Scholarships. She was also a participant of the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Program for Excellence in Chamber Music.