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Christian Lindberg
He started playing the trombone at the age of 17, and entered the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm two years later. At the tender age of 25 , he made his solo debut with the Stockholm Philharmonic.
She has won numerous competitions, including first place at the prestigious Franck Martin Competition, as well as the Maria Martin Prize.
He is always eager to expand his repertoire, and his repertoire consists of an enormous number of pieces, from original pieces to arrangements of large-scale pieces and pieces dedicated to him by contemporary composers. However large the piece may be, he always performs it from memory.
Furthermore, his works "Motorcycle Trip" and "Don Quixote", which were completed through careful planning with the Chinese composer Jan Sandström, caused a sensation and are frequently performed in countries around the world.
In 1994 , he won the BBC Classical Musical Award together with other world-class artists such as conductor Claudio Abbado and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Since 1991 , he has given frequent recitals in Japan, and has been attracting attention for his collaborations with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Kioi Sinfonietta, and Ensemble Kanazawa.
He was appointed Prince Consort Professor Emeritus at the Royal College of Music in London, and in 2005 he received the prestigious order of "Litteris et Artibus" (Cultural Merit) from the King of Sweden.
To date, over 80 works have been dedicated to the orchestra by such musicians as Berio, Xenakis, Toru Takemitsu, and Tanesi, and the orchestra has premiered over 300 works.
In 2009 he became the principal conductor of the Norwegian Arctic Philharmonic.
Joseph Alessi
He began his music studies in his native California and was already solo trombonist with the San Francisco Symphony while still in high school before enrolling at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
He has been the principal trombonist of the New York Philharmonic since the spring of 1985. Prior to joining the NYP, he served as second trombonist of the Philadelphia Orchestra for four seasons, and as principal trombonist of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra for one season. He also guest-performed as principal trombonist with the London Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Boulez at Carnegie Hall.
While active in recitals and chamber music, he also made his solo debut as a soloist in April 1990 with the New York Philharmonic in Paul Creston's Fantasy, and in 1992 premiered Christopher Rouse's Trombone Concerto, commissioned to commemorate the orchestra's 150th anniversary, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Recent collaborations with the New York Philharmonic include the world premiere of William Bolcom's Trombone Concerto in the summer of 2016 .
In addition to the New York Philharmonic, he has appeared as soloist with the New Japan Philharmonic, Nagoya Philharmonic, Mannheim State Theatre Orchestra, The Hague Philharmonic, and the symphonies of Colorado, Alabama, Santa Barbara, Syracuse, and Puerto Rico.
In 2002, he was awarded the International Trombone Society's Award for Contributions to Trombone Music and Performance, and in 2014 he was elected President of the Society.
He currently teaches at the Juilliard School, and his students are active in orchestras in the United States and around the world.
Ian Bousfield
Born in York, England in 1964, he achieved great success in brass bands as a child. After being taught by his father, he studied under Dudley Bright of the London Symphony Orchestra.
He began his career as an orchestral player at the age of 15. After studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he became principal player of the Hallé Orchestra in 1983. In 1988 , at the age of 23 , he became principal player of the London Symphony Orchestra, a position he held for 12 years, and after working at the Vienna Court Orchestra, he was appointed principal player of the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera Orchestra in 2000 , a remarkable achievement as he became the first and only British member of such an orchestra.
As a soloist, he has performed with such great conductors as R. Muti, N. Marriner, and K. Nagano, as well as with the Vienna Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, Hallé Orchestra, and Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has also made many solo recordings with EMI , Camerata, Chandos, Doyen , and others.
His conducting career has also grown exponentially, with engagements with the Oslo Philharmonic, Liceu Opera, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Opera, Sonderborg Symphony Orchestra, Bern Symphony Orchestra, Nolan's Opera and the New World Symphony Orchestra.
In 2019, at the invitation of Valery Gergiev, he served as chairman of the jury for the brass instruments category of the newly established International Tchaikovsky Competition.
He has performed at music festivals around the world, and is active not only as a soloist and conductor, but also as an educator. He has been a professor at the Bern University of the Arts since 2011 , and has taught at the Royal Academy of Music since 1992. His students have won the most prestigious competitions, including the ARD and the Royal Overseas League, and are now active in some of the world's top orchestras.
