If you’ve never heard of a bass trombone, you’re probably not alone. It usually makes its home in the back row of the orchestra with the other low brass instruments, rarely getting any solo time. “The ...

A trombone concerto is a sufficiently rare bird that each new sighting is something of an event. Thrill-seekers and trombonists turned out in San Rafael's Veterans Memorial Auditorium on Tuesday night ...

On Jan. 10, the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra delivered another in the ever-popular “Beethoven and Blue Jeans” series. A creation of Music Director Peter Rubardt, the January concerts bring brilliance ...

When it comes to the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO), there are always a handful of musical initiatives that can be claimed as precedent setting. Take the concert that is being held on November ...

The first three notes of the concerto ring out, and it's clear that Matthew Watt knows his way around a trombone. The 20-year-old Augustana University student has a clear tone, and when the tempo ...

Driving south through Georgia Wednesday morning, Italian trombonist Peter Steiner said he and Austrian pianist Constanze ...

Then came a stroke of luck. Free got into conversation with an American pianist, who was over recording the Gershwin concerto with the RSNO and was an ardent enthusiast of Shilkret's music. "He ...

In a typical Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concert, principal trombonist Megumi Kanda is in the back with the other brass players. But in Tan Dun's "Three Muses in Video Game," the trombone is the hero ...

The interesting format for this weekend's trio of Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Classics Series concerts finds the world premiere of an unusual Triple Trombone Concerto flanked by two of the most ...

IT'S fair to say that James MacMillan's music has always been powerful, gut-driven and emotionally intense, yet cast in a protective veil of intellectual rigour '“ that characteristic Scottishness ...