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TROMBONE
Christian Linberg
Christian Lindberg is perhaps the first classical trombonist to maintain a successful full-time performing
career as a soloist. Though now considered among the instrument's foremost exponents, he actually
took up the trombone fairly late, only starting playing at age 17 after hearing recordings by the great
jazz trombonist Jack Teagarden. By 19, Lindberg was the principle trombonist of the Royal Opera
Orchestra in Stockholm. But he left that position after just a year, saying he was bored playing in an
orchestra. After further studies in Stockholm, London, and Los Angeles, Lindberg began his solo career.
He established himself very quickly, and now plays about 100 concerts per year all over the world. He
has won many major competitions, gives frequent lectures and masterclasses, and holds the honorary
title of Prince Consort Composer at London's Royal College of Music.
Joseph Alessi
Joseph Alessi is a world-renowned, primarily classical, trombonist; he is the current Principal Trombone
of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and an active soloist, teacher/clinician and recording artist.
Alessi is considered to be one of the finest players of the instrument in modern times. Joseph Alessi, Jr.
was born in 1959 in Detroit, Michigan and attended high school in San Rafael, California. His father,
Joseph Alessi, Sr., was a professional trumpet player and his mother sang in the Metropolitan Opera
chorus. Displaying notable talent himself from an early age, Alessi graduated early from high school at
age 16 and successfully auditioned to join the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. During this time he
appeared as a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony. In 1976-77, following a previous unsuccessful
audition, Alessi gained entry to the Curtis Institute of Music (in Philadelphia), where he studied until
1980. During his third year at Curtis, Alessi joined the Philadelphia Orchestra as caretaker Second
Trombone; he later won the job permanently and performed with the orchestra for four seasons.
Following one season as Principal Trombone at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra,
Branimir Slokar
Michel Becquet (born 4 February 1954 Limoges) is a French trombonist and professor at the
Conservatoire de Lyon. From a young age he played piano and horn, taught by his father, a professional
horn player, until he turned to the trombone, aged 10. After several years of studies at the
Conservatoire de Limoges, aged 15 he entered the Conservatoire de Paris where he quickly obtained his
diploma.
He went on to win all the international contests open to his instrument (Geneva, Munich, Prague and
Toulon). At 18, he became solo trombone of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, under the direction of
Wolfgang Sawallisch, before some years later joining the orchestra of Opéra National de Paris.
In 1989 he left the Paris Opera for the Hochschule für Musik (Cologne) where he spent time teaching
and composing.
In 1990 Gilbert Amy invited him to become Head of Brass at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de
Musique where he directed the 18-strong ensemble Cuivres Français.
Since then he has joined the Conservatoire de Lyon where he is Professor of Trombone and Head of
Brass.
Jay Friedman attended Yale University on scholarship and majored in composition at Roosevelt
University. After four years with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and two years with the Florida
Symphony, he joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1962 and was appointed principal trombone in
1964. He has soloed with the CSO on several occasions, including a concerto by Ellen Taaffe
Zwilich.Friedman recently released The Singing Trombone, a solo CD designed to assist trombone
students. He has taught trombone privately for many years, and his students hold positions in major
orchestras such as the Gothenburg Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, and the Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra. Friedman currently serves as professor of trombone, principal guest conductor, and head of
winds and brass at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. He also has been
artist-in-residence at Indiana University. Friedman was invited to hold master classes and perform at the
International Trombone Camp in Fossano, Italy, in 2002, and in Limone, Italy, in 2003. That same year,
he also performed at the International Trombone Association in Helsinki, Finland. In 2006 Friedman held
master classes in Vigo, Spain.An active conductor, Jay Friedman was named music director of the
Symphony of Oak Park & River Forest in 1995. At the invitation of Daniel Barenboim, Friedman
conducted the Civic Orchestra in act 1 of Wagner’s Die Walküre, in a performance the Chicago SunTimes called “the best Civic concert in the past 30 years.” In 2002, he was chosen Conductor of the Year
by the Illinois Council of Orchestras.In 2001, Friedman combined his passion for brass and conducting by
organizing the Chicago Symphony brass and alumni in a concert at Symphony Center benefiting the
Symphony of Oak Park & River Forest and honoring Adolph “Bud” Herseth. This all-brass concert, Brass
Buddies, featured Friedman’s own arrangement of Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony.Douglas Yeo
BASS TROMBONE
Blair Bollinger is the Bass Trombonist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He joined the Orchestra at age 23 the youngest trombonist in any major American orchestra at that time.
As a soloist, Mr. Bollinger has performed with The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Atlanta Symphony and
The Savannah (GA) Symphony. He has been a guest artist at international and domestic trombone
conferences. Mr. Bollinger has performed recitals and given master classes in Brazil, Chile, China,
Holland, Israel, Japan, Poland and throughout the United States. As a student, he won the 1986
Philadelphia Orchestra Senior Student Competition, and remains the only trombonist to win this
competition since it began in 1934 as well as the only bass trombone soloist ever with the Philadelphia
Orchestra.
His recordings include a solo disc, Fancy Free, for d'Note Records, hailed by American Record Guide as
"The recording I've been waiting for ... an amazing display of Bollinger's virtuoso skills." Other recordings
are Four of a Kind; a trombone quartet disc, and a Gabrieli disc with the Canadian Brass. His
arrangements of music for trombone are published by Ensemble Publications in New York and Alphonse
Leduc in Paris. With Four of a Kind, Mr. Bollinger has toured Japan and been featured in several
trombone conferences. Their new CD should be released in Spring 2003.
Mr. Bollinger is a 1986 graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music where he studied with Charles Vernon
and Glenn Dodson. He is now on faculty at Curtis and Temple University. In addition to teaching private
lessons, he conducts brass and percussion ensembles and coaches chamber music. He has spent recent
summers performing in the Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming and conducting and teaching at the
Bar Harbor Brass Week in Maine.
Charlie Vernon began his orchestral career in September 1971 as bass trombonist with the Baltimore
Symphony. In 1980 he performed one season with the San Francisco Symphony, before being chosen by
Riccardo Muti to play bass trombone with the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he played for five seasons.
Charlie joined the legendary brass section of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1986.
A native of Asheville, North Carolina, Charlie attended Brevard College and Georgia State University,
where he studied with Bill Hill as well as Gail Wilson, professor of trombone at Arizona State University.
His mentor/teachers were Arnold Jacobs and Edward Kleinhammer, respectively former tuba and bass
trombone of the Chicago Symphony.
Charlie Vernon makes many solo and teaching appearances throughout the world and has served on the
faculties of Catholic University, Brevard Music Center, Philadelphia College of Performing Arts, Roosevelt
University, the Curtis Institute, and Northwestern University. Currently, he is Professor of Trombone at
DePaul University in Chicago.
In April 1991, with the Chicago Symphony under Daniel Barenboim, he gave the world premiere of Ellen
Taaffe Zwilich's Concerto for Bass Trombone, which was commissioned by the Orchestra for its
centennial. In September 2006, he and the CSO premiered Chick a' Bone Checkout, a virtuoso concerto
for the alto, tenor and bass trombones and orchestra, written by composer-trombonist Christian
Lindberg.
Charlie and his talented wife, Alison, have performed together for many Euopean and American
audiences and have commissioned several song cycles for soprano, trombone and piano by the
American composer Eric Ewazen. Charlie and Alison have two sons - Mark, who is a professional video
game designer, and Gary, who is a college student.
As a part-time athlete, Charlie is an avid swimmer and a member of the Evanston Masters Swim Team.
He comments, "As time passes, I realize that I must keep doing it, so that I can KEEP doing it!"