Susan Addison

Classical trombone and sackbut player, born 1955 in Louth, Lincolnshire. Following studies of the trombone at the Royal College of Music, she joined the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra where she remained for four and a half years. She was a founder member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and she also co-founded the ensemble His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, of which she was a member for twenty-five years. She performs with other ensembles such as the Orchestre Révolutionnaire Et Romantique, the Academy Of Ancient Music, the Gabrieli Consort and Players and the Amsterdam-based Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. She additionally teaches at the Royal College of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music, Trinity College of Music and the Birmingham Conservatoire.