Christian Lindberg

Christian Lindberg's achievements with the trombone are only comparable to N. Paganini's with the violin or F. Liszt's with the piano.

After premiering over three hundred works for trombone -about thirty of them composed by him-, recording over seventy solo cds and having an international trombone competition named after him in Valencia, today Christian Lindberg is no less than a living legend.

Early in his career he was already selected soloist of the year, with Yo Yo Ma and Gidon Kremer, by the BBC Music magazine. In 2000, an international survey voted Louis Amstrong, Miles Davis and Christian Lindberg as the best brass players in the 20th century. He was the first Swedish instrument player in history to be invited to play solo with the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In May 2007, he was invited by the Musikverein in Vienna, the ‘bastion' of classical music, as artist-in-residence. Moreover, Christian Lindberg has collaborated with practically all the great orchestras and conductors in the world.

Ch. Lindberg played the trombone for the first time at the age of seventeen, inspired by jazz trombonist Jack Teagarden. At eighteen, he was admitted to the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and, barely two years later, obtained a position at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm. He left the orchestra at the age of twenty and, since then, has built an impressive career, not only as the first trombone soloist in history, but also as an extremely successful conductor and composer.

Currently, Ch. Lindberg's appointment book is full of engagements for the upcoming years, which combine his career as a conductor -chief conductor of the Nordic Chamber Opera and the Swedish Wind Ensemble, and guest conductor of orchestras such as the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi- and his career as a composer, working on pieces commissioned by ensembles such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Chamber Orchestra or the Swedish Radio Choir. He also continues to appear as a soloist in concerts; for example, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the German National Radio Orchestra -NDR- and the Yomiuri Orchestra of Tokio.