Baron Thor Young is an award-winning performer and musician from North Carolina, USA. Baron is currently working as a Fulbright Austria US teaching assistant in tandem with his master’s degree at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna (MUK), where he studies with Marcelo Padilla, principal bassoon of the Vienna Radio Symphony. He formerly held the principal bassoon position of the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra in Salisbury, North Carolina, and has appeared as a concerto soloist with the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) Symphony Orchestra. He obtained a bachelor’s in music from UNCSA, where he studied under Dr. Stephanie Patterson. Baron stumbled upon the bassoon as an adolescent and taught himself before attending UNSCA’s high-school program under Saxton Rose. Baron is committed to playing the bassoon outside of just the "bass" part in favor of the "oon" portion. He says, "It's not just a bass. We function better as other voices (i.e., baritone, tenor, alto, and even soprano if we practice hard enough)."

Baron is also an avid unicyclist, recorder player, reed maker, language learner, consumer of all genres of music, and can frequently be found out on a walk.