Christian Lindberg’s achievements for the trombone can only be compared
with those of Paganini for the violin or Liszt for the piano. Having
premièred over 300 works for the trombone (including more than 30
composed by Christian himself), recorded over 70 solo CD’s, and having
an international solo competition created in his name in Valencia,
Spain, Christian Lindberg is today nothing less than a living legend. At an early stage of his career he joined Yo Yo Ma and Gidon Kremer as
the BBC Music Magazine’s soloist of the year. In 2000, together with
Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis, he was voted by an international poll
the greatest brass players of the 20th century. He was the first Swedish
instrumentalist ever to be invited to perform as soloist with the
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In
2007 he was artist in residence at the Musikverein in Vienna – the
‘stronghold’ of traditional classical music. Christian Lindbe...
