Ian Bousfield

One of the most influential brass players of our time, now a soloist, conductor and pedagogue, Ian Bousfield has been principal trombone of the Vienna Philharmonic and London Symphony in an orchestral career that spanned thirty years. As a soloist he has appeared with, amongst others, Riccardo Muti, Michael Tilson Thomas, Sir Neville Marriner and Kent Nagano with the Vienna Philharmonic, London Symphony, London Philharmonic and the BBC Philharmonic.

Bousfield is regarded as one of the world’s foremost brass conductors. He has conducted the Oslo Philharmonic, the orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona, Danish Radio Symphony, Copenhagen Opera, Sonderborg Symphony, Bern Symphony, Norrlandsoperan, and the New World Symphony.

He is professor of trombone at the Hochschule der Künste in Bern and the Royal Academy of Music in London. His former students sit in some of the world’s premier orchestras and have won the most prestigious competitions including the ARD and Royal Overseas League. He is a brass coach for the GUSTAV MAHLER JUGENDORCHESTER since 2014 and a regular coach of the New World Symphony. The podcast “The Ian Bousfield Experience” is one of the most downloaded in classical music and has followers worldwide. In 2012 he was awarded the ITA award, a lifetime honour from the International Trombone Association.