Joe Alessi

Joe Alessi

 

April 18, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Kent Concert Hall
Performance with the USU Wind Orchestra, Thomas P. Rohrer, Conductor

 

Department of Music

 

Joseph Alessi was appointed Principal Trombone of the New York Philharmonic in the spring of 1985. As a high school student in San Rafael, California, he was a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, and performed with the Marin Symphony before continuing his musical training at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music. Mr. Alessi is an active soloist, recitalist, and chamber music performer. Currently on the faculty of The Juilliard School, his students now occupy posts with many major symphony orchestras throughout the United States. As a clinician for the Edwards Instrument Co., he has also given master classes throughout the world and has toured Europe extensively as a master teacher and recitalist.