Geert De Vos

Geert De Vos attended his first musical classes as an 8-year old at the Aartselaar music academy. Two years later, he started playing the trombone with Mark Joris. After 4 years, Geert switched to the bass trombone.

 

In 1993, he decided to study with Michel Tilkin at the music grammar school of the Lemmens Institute in Louvain. He went on to study music in higher education and graduated in 2001 as Master in Music with First Prizes in Bass Trombone, Music and Chamber Music. He then went on the specialise for one year and obtained the Higher Bass Trombone Diploma summa cum laude.

 

Geert was a member of the renowned Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchester.

 

Since 1997 he played as bass trombonist for the Muntschouwburg Orchestra.

He also works with various ensembles and orchestras on a regular basis, including the Wim Mertens Ensemble, the Prometheus Ensemble, I Solisti del Vento, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Die Rheinische Philharmonie, the Flemish Opera, Brussels Philharmonic, ...

Together with the Metropole Brassband Geert recorded his first  solo-cd, Vademecum for Bass Trombone.

Geert is co-founder of The Bone Project.

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