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.