Benjamin Moermond, an American bassoonist from Cincinnati, joined the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in September 2010. While a student at The Juilliard School, he was equally active as an orchestral and chamber musician and was a member of the emerging PUFF! Quintet, who were finalists in the 2009 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition and winners of the Treetops CMS J.C. Arriaga Chamber Music Competition. He also performed occasionally as a substitute with the New York Philharmonic. Recent summer activities have included The Juilliard Orchestra’s tour to China in the summer of 2008, the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo in 2008, the Lucerne Festival Academy in Switzerland in 2008 and 2009, the Youth Orchestra of the Americas European tour in 2006, and a five-week residency at the Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy in 2005.