布莱尔Bollinger

布莱尔Bollinger, the bass trombonist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, joined the orchestra in 1986 at the invitation of Riccardo Muti and enjoys the full orchestra schedule of more than 150 concerts each year along with many recordings and international tours. 作为独奏家, Bollinger has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra (the only bass trombone soloist ever to have done so), 亚特兰大交响乐团, National Symphony of 台湾, 和其他人. He has performed recitals and given master classes in Brazil, 智利, 中国, 荷兰, 以色列, 日本, 韩国, 波兰, 台湾, and throughout the United States. As a student he won the 1986 Philadelphia Orchestra Greenfield Competition and remains the only trombonist to win this competition since it began in 1934.

Bollinger’s trombone, which he helped design, is the Bollinger model bass trombone by the S.E. Shires Company of Hopedale, Mass. His recordings include a solo disc, 自由的想象; two discs with his trombone quartet Four of a Kind; a Gabrieli album with the Canadian 黄铜; and a premiere recording of the Concerto by Jay Krush with the Temple University Wind Ensemble.

主动安排者, his arrangements of music for various string and brass ensembles are published by Alphonse Leduc in Paris, Ensemble Publications in New York, and Southern 音乐 in Texas. A respected teacher, Bollinger is a faculty member at Juilliard, the Curtis Institute, and Temple University. In addition to teaching lessons, he coaches chamber music and conducts classes and sectional rehearsals. He has spent recent summers performing and teaching in the National Orchestral Institute, Grand Teton 音乐 Festival, Eastern 音乐 Festival, Aspen 音乐 Festival, 布拉沃维尔, and New York State Summer School for the Arts, Luzerne 音乐 Center, and the Bar Harbor 黄铜 Week.

Born in Rochester, Pa., Bollinger is a 1986 graduate of the Curtis Institute of 音乐, where he studied with Charles Vernon and Glenn Dodson. He has also been active in backstage administration work at Curtis, where he served on the board of trustees, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he negotiated union contracts and chaired the committee that selected the orchestra’s music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin.