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Richard Trombley
trombley@uoregon.edu

Richard Trombley is associate professor emeritus of flute and music history and has been at the University of Oregon since 1963.

Trombley received a B.S. degree in performance in 1961 from the Juilliard School, a M.Mus. degree in both performance and musicology from the Manhattan School of Music in 1962, and a D.M.A. degree from Stanford University in 1977. He studied flute under William Kincaid and Julius Baker. His teachers in musicology were Joseph Braunstein, Gustave Reese, Jan La Rue, and George Houle.

Trombley toured Europe for two years as a soloist and first-chair member of the Seventh Army Symphony. He was a freelance musician in New York City for seven years, appearing frequently in chamber music concerts at Carnegie Chamber Hall and Town Hall. He was flutist with the University of Oregon Woodwind Quintet for 16 years, appearing with that group on Advance Records. He was principal flutist with the Oregon Bach Festival under Helmuth Rilling for 10 years, and was principal flutist with the Eugene Symphony from 1973-1988. Trombley has appeared as soloist with the University of Oregon Symphony, the Eugene Symphony, and the Oregon Bach Festival.

Trombley has contributed several papers to the Northwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society, and gave a paper at the National Flute Association (NFA) convention in Philadelphia in 1983. He has published two articles in the NFA Quarterly, has recently published an article in Symposium, the journal of the College Music Society, and has contributed two papers on film music to CMS over the past four years. He is currently finishing a book on film and film music.

Trombley's students have been selected on three occasions as semifinalists in the NFA International Young Artists Competition, and in 1994 two of his students won substantial grants in both performance and scholarship.