Preston Trombly

Preston Andrew Trombly (born December 30, 1945, in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American composer, visual artist, and broadcast personality, best known as a program host on Sirius XM's Symphony Hall classical music channel.

Trombly is the son of Perley A. Trombly, who owned a printing company in Manchester, Connecticut, and Elizabeth Sage Trombly.[1]

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.[2] Trombly's visual art has been shown in multiple exhibitions, principally in the New York area.[3]

In the early 1980s Trombly was active as a saxophonist and jazz clarinettist. 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.[4]

Trombly was a classical music program host at WNCN FM from 1991 to 1995, and at WQXR FM from 1991 to 2000. He was a newscaster and staff announcer at WOR Radio from 1991 to 2008. He joined Sirius Satellite Radio in 2000.[5]

In 1997 Trombly married Margaret Mary Kelly, then the director of the Forbes Magazine Collection.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Margaret Kelly, Preston Trombley", The New York Times (May 25, 1997)
  2. MarketPlace Espeakers, "About Preston Trombly"
  3. prestontrombly.com, "Preston Trombly, Artist"
  4. Myrna S. Nachman, "Trombly, Preston (Andrew)", Grove Music Online (Oxford University Press)
  5. LinkedIn, "Preston Trombly"