Susan Addison

Susan "Sue" Addison (born 1955) is an English performer of the sackbut, tenor trombone, and other early trombones. She has performed as the principle trombone player for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Biography

Susan Addison was born in 1955 in Louth, Lincolnshire. She is a performer of the sackbut, tenor trombone, and other early trombones.

Based in the English Midlands, she performed with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment as their principle trombone player where she played the trombone of famous composer Edward Elgar after discovering it at the Royal College of Music. Following studies of the trombone, Addison joined the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra where she remained for four and a half years. She left to direct much of her effort into research on the music and instruments of the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. She founded and performed with His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts for 25 years. She was also principal for the Gabrieli Consort and Players and Amsterdam-based Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. She has been awarded an Hon.RAM from the Royal Academy of Music.

She teaches at the Royal College of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music, Trinity College of Music and the Birmingham Conservatoire.

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