Cleveland name principal trombone

Cleveland name principal trombone

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norman lebrecht

August 22, 2022

Brian Wendel, principal trombone of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, has won the prized seat at the Cleveland Orchestra.

He’s from rural Massachusetts.

The seat had been vacant for four years.

Comments

  • E Rand. says:

    Uh oh. He’s not BIPOC. Time to accuse the Cleveland Orch of systemic racism and burn them down.

    • KevinB says:

      Absolutely blinded by hate, aren’t you. Bad case of cancer of the soul. Glad I don’t know you in real life.

      • music lover says:

        You are right…But those feelings are the only ones non achievers who don´t have a grip over their lives do have….

  • Elaine Calder says:

    That’s Vancouver, BC not WA.
    And here’s his bio from VSO website:
    Brian Wendel joined the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra as Principal Trombone in 2017, at age 21. Winner of two International Trombone Association competitions (2014 and 2016), Brian has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the New York Philharmonic Brass Ensemble. He has worked with conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Valery Gergiev, Esa-Pekka Salonen, David Robertson, Alan Gilbert, Jaap Van Zweden, and Charles Dutoit, among others, performing in venues around the world.

    Chamber music performances have taken him to venues including the United Nations, the Russian Embassy in Washington, DC, and Madison Square Garden. As a student, Brian spent summer months at Music Academy of the West; Pacific Music Festival; American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria; the National Orchestral Institute; and the Alessi Seminar, and was a member of NYO-USA in 2013.

    Growing up in the rural town of Conway, Massachusetts, Brian’s other endeavors have included piano, jazz, and composing and performing his own music. He received his Bachelor’s degree from The Juilliard School, where he was a scholarship student of Joseph Alessi, the principal trombone of the New York Philharmonic.

  • Axl says:

    Great news! Wishing best and many succesful years to him and orchestra. Now there’s only a bass trombone vacancy need to fill and then the low brass gang is complete again.

  • Ralph Sauer says:

    A great choice. Not only is he a fine musician, he is also one of the good guys. He will be a wonderful addition to Cleveland’s world-class brass section.

  • Sauron says:

    Won?

  • ClevelandHasDirtyAuditions says:

    Awwwww, another Cleveland Orchestra position filled by a private audition. So much for equity. Nothing to see here…..move along! At least the sexual predators are being shown the door.

  • James Scott says:

    A fine player – his recent solo recording is a “must have” for aspiring trombonists. Congratulations to Brian and to Cleveland for this choice!

  • William Osborne says:

    The Cleveland Orchestra remains the only one of the big 7 US orchestras without any women in the brass section. (Now let’s hear the chauvinistic Breitbart drill sergeants bluster about how that’s irrelevant, woke, communist, and the usual stuff.)

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