Preston Trombly
Preston Andrew Trombly (born December 30, 1945, in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American musician and broadcast personality. He is a program host on Sirius XM's Symphony Hall classical music channel.
Trombly earned his Bachelor of Music from the University of Connecticut in 1969. He received a Master of Musical Arts degree from the Yale School of Music in 1972. He has been a Fellow in Composition and Conducting at the Tanglewood Music Center (1970), a Guggenheim Fellow (1974–1975), and a resident fellow at the MacDowell Colony.[1] Trombly's visual art has been shown in multiple exhibitions, principally in the New York area.[2]
In the early 1980s Trombly was active as a saxophonist and jazz clarinetist. He played with the Jaki Byard group, and also as a soloist. He has taught at Vassar College, CUNY and the Catholic University of America.[3]
Trombly was a classical music program host at WNCN-FM from 1991 to 1993, and at WQXR-FM from 1991 to 2000. He was also a newscaster and staff announcer at WOR-AM from 1991 to 2008. He joined Sirius Satellite Radio in 2000.[4]
In 1997 Trombly married Margaret Mary Kelly, then the director of the Forbes Magazine Collection.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ MarketPlace Espeakers, "About Preston Trombly"
- ^ prestontrombly.com, "Preston Trombly, Artist"
- ^ Myrna S. Nachman, "Trombly, Preston (Andrew)", Grove Music Online (Oxford University Press)
- ^ LinkedIn, "Preston Trombly"
- ^ "Margaret Kelly, Preston Trombley", The New York Times (May 25, 1997)
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