Brian French Email & Phone Number

Greensboro, Nc, Us

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

I perform as the Principal Trombonist of the Winston-Salem Symphony—a position I have held since the 2000/2001 concert season—and have appeared as a soloist on numerous occasions. During my time with the Symphony, I have collaborated with such notable guests as Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Van Cliburn, Joshua Bell, Renée Fleming, James Galway, Chris Botti, Ricky Skaggs, and countless others. As Senior Creative Manager of the Winston-Salem Symphony, I cover all aspects of design and placements across various media and platforms. I have designed, developed, and maintained the Winston-Salem Symphony website since 2009, launching four major redesigns over the past fifteen years, including creating one of the orchestra-world's first mobile-responsive websites, in 2011. I am responsible for the Symphony's social media strategy, content creation and account management across six major outlets, email marketing design and strategy, and graphic design for most print collateral. In March 2020, I used single-camera, archival video footage of the concert immediately preceding the pandemic shutdown, edited and animated it to appear as if it were multi-angle, and created "Camera 1," a social media series that kept Winston-Salem Symphony patrons engaged for the first five months of the pandemic. This series became StagePass, our streaming content platform, engaging professional a videographer with six-angle 4K video, for which I serve as a producer for musical consulting, further editing, and motion titling. The Symphony's initial offering of 13 video products during the 2020-2021 season has continued to this day.

United States

I became the Principal Trombonist of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra in 2015 after nearly fifteen years as their first-call substitute trombonist, tenor tubist, and bass trumpeter. With the Symphony, I’ve had the opportunity to perform with such artists as Emanuel Ax, Pinchas Zukerman, and Sting. I have also served on a contract basis as the GSO’s web designer since 2016, taking the site through two major redesigns in that time.

Performances under Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Robert Spano, Donald Runnicles, Oliver Knussen, et al.

Master Of Music, Trombone Performance

Bachelor Of Music With Distinction, Trombone Performance

Activities and Societies: Pi Kappa Lambda (Honors Society in Music)