Christian Lindberg

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 Lindberg has

worked with practically every major orchestra and conductor in the world

today. For a trombonist to achieve all this before turning 50 is, to

say the least, remarkable. Gradually Christian Lindberg has also embarked on two new successful

careers as conductor and composer. ( Read more about this on Christian

Lindberg’s conductor and composer biographies on this website ) Today

Christian Lindberg almost exclusively appears as a soloist in programmes

where he conducts himself.  His future schedule contains only a few

exclusive soloistic collaborations such as with the Concertgebouw

Orchestra in Amsterdam. He now combines his position as chief conductor of the Arctic Symphony

Orchestra with guest conducting the foremost international orchestras

and working on composition commissions from international orchestras,

ensembles and instrumentalists in combination with his activities as an

instrumentalist. Parallel with all these activities, Christian Lindberg makes sure he

can devote some valuable leisure time with his family at their country

residence on a peninsula of the beautiful Stockholm Archipelago.