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 ...

Dai Fujikura’s elusive trombone concerto was given its UK premiere by Peter Moore, who made its colours and textures sing; a persuasive but perhaps too sunny reading of Mahler’s first symphony followe ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Reading Symphony Orchestra will feature one of its own Saturday at 8 p.m., when principal trombonist Bradley Ward performs Nino Rota’s Trombone Concerto. Music director Andrew Constantine will ...

Towards the front of the rehearsal hall, the symphony is a sea of violins and violas. But the bows are as still as frozen water. Instead, an unlikely solo instrument from the back row has taken center ...

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 ...