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Benny Sluchin

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Benny Sluchin

Benny Sluchin

Brass Bulletin presents its new trombone and bass trombone editor: Benny Sluchin

In spite of his many professional activities Jean Douay, solo trombone at the Orchestre National de France, has helped and supported us in this field for many years and we would like to express here our deepest gratitude to him.

In order to ensure continued interest in this side of the brass family, as well as giving it a fresh impulse, we have called on Benny Sluchin (see the brief biographical note below) and invite our readers to an appreciation of our new colleague's ideas when we publish in our next edition a "historico-anecdotal" article on the transcription problem.

Benny Sluchin was born in Tel Aviv in Israel in 1948. He studied music at the Rubin Academy of Music, and trombone with Messrs. Grabler and Ostrowsky. He followed mathematics and philosophy courses at Tel Aviv University at the same time and graduated "Master of Science" with distinction.

His professional career began in the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra where he stayed for two years before going as co-soloist for four years to the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra (Radio Orchestra). A German government grant took him to Cologne where he studied trombone with V. Globokar and obtained his artist's diploma with distinction.

Since 1977 he has lived in Paris where he is a member of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, a group of soloists created by Pierre Boulez with the intention of playing the music of our century. He also has various activities as a soloist.

Apart from that he is leading a research project in brass acoustics at IRCAM (Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics and Music) and working on a doctoral thesis in mathematics at the Sorbonne.

Brass Bulletin 30, II / 1980 pages 5–6

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