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]

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