Here is a recording of me playing the Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra by Nino Rota with my good friend Tyler Hay on Piano. We played this in the Royal Northern College of Music Concert Hall on the 12th of December, 2014.

Concerto Per Trombone E Orchestra II. Lento, Ben Ritmato

Concerto Per Trombone E Orchestra I. Allegro Giusto

Here's me playing John Iveson's arrangement of Londonderry Air as part of the start of the Philip Jones Centre for Brass at the RNCM. 

04 Londonderry Air

An arrangement of one of my favourite jazz standards "Emily" I recorded with some friends of mine yesterday (September 10th, 2015). Ali Roocroft-Piano, Matt Brown-Drums and Ali McMath-Bass.

Emily

A take of me playing another of my favourite standards by Henry Mancini. We did it in one take!
Nick Conn-Trombone
Ali McMath-Bass
Ali Roocroft-Piano
Matt Brown-Drums

The Days Of Wine And Roses.m4a

Here's a sample version of a tune I've been working on the past few days, this is yet to be titled. This is just the first half of it, more to come when I record the live version in the next 2 months!

Jazz Sample

This is a new tune I wrote. It was recorded on Monday March 7th, 2016 with the Manchester Jazz Collective on a gig at the Wonder Inn. 
Soprano Sax-Kyran Matthews
Trombone-Nick Conn 

Rowena

Early 20th Century Romantic work by French trained, Polish pianist and composer, Sigismond Stojowski.

Fantasie Pour Trombone et Piano - Sigismond Stojowski

Fantasy for Trombone and Orchestra, Op. 42 by Paul Creston:
This piece was written for Robert Marstellar and premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1947 and is cornerstone of the trombone solo repertoire. Creston, more famous for his Marimba Concerto, created a trombone concerto that drew from the contemporary idioms of the day. In this piece one can hear influences of: Stravinsky, Gershwin, Ravel and draws heavily from jazz. Long considered one of the hardest pieces in the repertoire, it serves as a virtuosic showpiece for the soloist demonstrating technique and lyrical solo ability.

Fantasy for Trombone and Orchestra, Op. 42-Paul Creston

I always wanted to do an arrangement of the tune "Quiet Now." It's one of my favorite jazz standards. So I got bored this afternoon and made a trombone quintet arrangement of it and recorded myself playing it. The mix isn't the greatest as I didn't have any proper microphones and just used the mic on the computer and sorta recorded and mixed it in Garageband, but you get the point. Enjoy!

Quiet Now - 10:8:16, 6.02 PM

Here is the first movement of a trombone concerto I started writing. I need to edit some things but I wrote this in about a week at the end of May. Working on the 2nd and 3rd movements currently. I drew inspiration from Howard Hanson, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and John Williams (who in turn drew inspiration from the previously mentioned composers).
"This music describes to me how a futuristic society would look back nostalgically on the past. This is musically how they would view a past that isn't quite tangible to them. Almost in an idealized way. In turn, perhaps this is an idealized way the past viewed the future."
-K

Concerto for Trombone-I. Dark Sea Rising-2017-MP3

World class original compositions and arrangements for classical and jazz musicians. Written by Master of Music graduate Nick Conn. Nick attended Eastman School of Music and Royal Northern College of Music.

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