Matthew Russo, trombonist & educator

Instructor of Trombone, University of Connecticut

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  • overcast cape

    Even an overcast day is still stunning.

  • Man of La Mancha

    Greeitings from Cape Cod! I’m up here at the Monomoy Theatre in Chatham MA for a two week production of “Man of La Mancha.” I don’t have much time to make a post but I wanted to highlight the show’s best song “The Impossible Dream.” For some reason it invokes the thought of practicing excerpts.…

  • ten blake songs

    This update is from this past February at Katherine Bonner’s “MAD TUBA” recital. We performed Vaughan-Williams’ Ten Blake Songs for oboe and voice, with the trombone as the oboe and the tuba as the voice. The performance went well, and I’ve included the […]

  • stravinsky octet

    My friends over at the Hudson Valley Chamber Winds have uploaded a recording of the Stravinsky Octet from this past May. I am the resident trombonist with the group when they program works with trombone, and this concert featuring  the Octet went really great! You may listen to it on their new web page. The Stravinsky…

  • summer at norfolk

    This summer I’ll be spending six weeks at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival as the resident brass quintet along with my fellow members of the Yale Brass Quintet. There will be many opportunities to perform at the festival and its my understanding that all of the concerts will be live streamed. I’ll update the events…

  • Launch of New Website

    Hi folks. I’m happy to launch my new website. It’ll be slow going, but I hope to use this space to keep many of you up to date with my musical endeavors etc. I’ll be adding more content as we go along. Let me know what you think in the comments.

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