SAMUEL SCHLOSSER | TROMBONE

PRINCIPAL TROMBONE, SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ORCHESTRA

Samuel Schlosser joined the San Francisco Opera Orchestra as Principal Trombone in 2013. Before coming to San Francisco, he was a member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and was offered the position of Principal Trombone with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. While with the San Francisco Opera, he served for a year and a half as Principal Trombone with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. He has also appeared and/or recorded with with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony, the Seattle Opera, the Houston Symphony, the National Symphony, the San Diego Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the Utah Symphony, the Melbourne Symphony, the Malaysia Philharmonic, the Saint Barth’s Music Festival, the Arizona Music Festival, and as a soloist with Seth MacFarlane’s Sinatra-style jazz band.

Samuel received his formal training from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he was a student of Nitzan Haroz, Principal Trombone of the Philadelphia Orchestra.