Kunst oder Unfall - Performance

Abbie Conant resumed her musical education at the famous New Your Juilliard School, and he Cologne Hochschule für Musik. The International Trombone Journal puts Abbie Conant "in the first row of the world's leading trombone players".

1980, in a blind aufdition, she gained first trombone chair at the Munich Münchner Philharmonic. However, ten conductor-in-chief, Sergiu Celibidache, let her know shortly afterwards that "we need a man for solo trombone". Conant was downgraded on dubious grounds, but did not accept being treated like that, went to court and won, after years of legal dispute.

Since 1992 she is Professor for trombone at the an der renowned music highschool in Trossingen, Germany. She recorded an internationally well-received CD with music for Trombone and organ, and is a founding member of the performance group 'The Wasteland Company'.

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