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adam hanna international trombone soloist

ADAM BENJAMIN HANNA (b. 1988) is an international trombone soloist, orchestral musician, and a proud citizen of the Chickasaw Nation tribe. He was appointed Principal Trombonist of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic by Alexander Mickelthwate in the fall of 2021. In July of 2022, he recorded a CD of Trombone Duets by Vladislav Blazhevich for the European Gramophone label with Christian Lindberg and Kelton Koch of the Vienna Philharmonic, which can be heard on iTunes, Spotify, and over 200 streaming applications. Currently, he is an active New England area freelancer regularly performing as a guest with groups such as the Boston Symphony, and Boston Pops as well as being Assistant Professor of Trombone at the University of Rhode Island, and Adjunct Instructor of Trombone at the Wanda L. Bass School of Music in Oklahoma City.

As a soloist, Mr. Hanna has been the recipient of several international and national awards, including First Prize in the International Trombone Association’s Larry Wiehe Trombone Competition and the Lätzsch Trombone Competition, where he later appeared as a guest recitalist in 2014. He has appeared as a soloist in David Maslanka’s Trombone Concerto with the University of Texas at Arlington Wind Symphony, Johan de Meij’s T-Bone Concerto with the Amsterdam Symphonic Winds as part of the 2016 International Trombone Week, and premiered Thomas Traschel’s Festival Anthem for Trombones and Orchestra with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra.

As an orchestral musician, he has appeared as a guest trombonist with many major European and American orchestras and ensembles, including the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, The Hague Philharmonic, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, New Trombone Collective, New World Symphony, and the Dortmund Philharmonic. Additionally, he was selected as a finalist for the Minnesota Orchestra’s Rosemary and David Good Fellowship in both 2018 and 2019, which aims to spotlight musicians from traditionally underrepresented cultures. He has performed under such conductors as John Williams, Charles Dutoit, Andris Nelsons, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Thomas Adès.

He studied with Jörgen van Rijen, Principal Trombonist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Pierre Volders, Remko de Jager, and Ben van Dijk of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Dennis Bubert, Bass Trombonist of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, and currently studies with Toby Oft, Principal Trombonist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Trombone Performance from the University of Texas at Arlington (2015), his Master’s Degree in Trombone Performance from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam (2017), and is expected to receive his Doctor of Musical Arts in Trombone Performance degree from Boston University (2024) as a honored recipient of the prestigious Elouise Cobell Scholar Award.

Furthermore, Mr. Hanna was an Orchestra Fellow at the prestigious Tanglewood Music Festival in association with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was also selected for an Aspen Music Festival fellowship and was hand-picked by Christian Lindberg to attend the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Masterclass Series in Lubek, Germany.