Chris Houlding
Chris appointed Principal Trombone of the Orchestra of Opera North, Britain’s newest and most innovative opera company, when he was 21.
A graduate of London’s Guildhall School of Music, Chris studied with Denis Wick, Eric Crees and Peter Gane, and was awarded the Principal’s Prize. Prior to this he was a member of the European Union Youth Orchestra and Great Britain’s National Youth Jazz Orchestra and National Youth Brass Band, gaining the LRAM Diploma while still at school.
Recently appointed Professor of Trombone and Brass Ensemble at the Folkwang Hochschule, Essen, he is also Senior Tutor in Brass at Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music and regular Trombone Professor with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.
A former President of the British Trombone Society and clinician for the Edwards Instrument Company, he has appeared as guest artist at International Trombone Festivals in Las Vegas (ITF 2007), Sweden (2007) and Birmingham (ITF 2006).
