ABBIE CONANT | TROMBONE

PROFESSOR OF TROMBONE, STAATLICHE HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK TROSSINGEN

Juilliard trained trombonist and performance artist, Abbie Conant, was principal trombone of the Royal Opera House in Turin, Italy from 1979-80 and solo trombone in the Munich Philharmonic 1980 to 1993. The International Trombone Association Journal has featured her in a cover article and described her as "in the first rank of world class trombonists". She has recorded a highly acclaimed CD of trombone and organ music, has performed as a soloist, and given masterclasses in over 200 cities in Europe and America. She is Professor of Trombone at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Trossingen, Germany–the first and only woman professor of trombone in Germany.

She has been a jury member of the Geneva Competition, the Porcia Competition, and the Rimsky-Korsakov Competition in St. Petersburg, Russia and will judge the Munich ARD Competition in 2022. In 1996 she was voted President-elect of the International Trombone Association. Her experiences as a woman trombonist comprise the final chapter of Malcom Gladwell’s popular book Blink, which was on the NYT Bestseller list for 18 weeks. She and composer William Osborne have collaborated for over 40 years to create a new genre of chamber music theater where the trombone essentially becomes a fully integrated character central to the dramatic expression of the whole.

Website: www.osborne-conant.org