Barrie Webb (Trombone)
Barrie Webb read Music at Cambridge University, afterwards studying trombone with Vinko Globokar and conducting with Constantin Bugeanu. He holds the title Professor of Music from the University of Huddersfield, where he was Head of Performance and taught conducting, trombone and composition until 2009. Now a freelance performer and researcher, he has recorded extensively on CD as soloist and conductor, and his performances have been broadcast by numerous radio and television stations.
In 2007 he was guest editor of the Contemporary Music Review, contributing three articles on new music for solo trombone. He is currently holder of a Leverhulme Fellowship from 2012–2014 to enable further documentation of his solo repertoire on CD. And he is also preparing a chapter for inclusion in a book about the work of Constantin Bugeanu.