Louise Pollock

Louise Pollock is Principal trombone with the Gothenburg Opera in Sweden and faculty member at the Gothenburg University Academy of Music and Drama. A winner of the 1st Prize and Audience Prize at the International Aeolus Competition for Wind Instruments 2016 and the prestigious ”Stipendiat des Deutschen Musikrates” at the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb 2014. She has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Zürcher Kammerorchester, Opera Orchestra Gothenburg or the Duisburger Philharmoniker. Prior to Gothenburg she played with the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker 3 years. She has apperared at the Tourbon Brass Festival, Bjergsted Brass Festival Stavanger and the International Trombone Festival. Louise studied at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg i.Br., Germany, with Branimir Slokar, where she received her BM with distinction. She then went on to study with Henning Wiegräbe at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart, Germany (MM).