Blair Bollinger

As a soloist, Blair Bollinger has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony and the Savannah (GA) Symphony. He has also 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”, 2 discs with his trombone quartet "Four of a Kind" and a Gabrieli disc with the Canadian Brass. With “Four of a Kind”, Mr. Bollinger has toured Japan and been featured in several trombone conferences. His arrangements of music for trombone are published by Ensemble Publications in New York and Alphonse Leduc in Paris.

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. He also does some orchestral conducting in the Philadelphia area. (Edwards)

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