About Andrew

Andrew is a passionate musician and a talented trombone player.

Trombonist

London

Andrew took up the trombone and the age of 8, and grew up playing in brass bands around South Yorkshire. In 2008 he received a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music London, where he studied under Lindsay Shilling (Principal Trombone, Royal Opera House) and Byron Fulcher (Principal Trombone, Philharmonia Orchestra). During his time at the college Andrew was awarded the John Fletcher Memorial Trombone Prize and achieved first class honours. In 2012, Andrew moved to Bern, Switzerland to study a masters of music performance under world renowned trombonist Ian Bousfield, former principal trombone LSO and Vienna Philharmonic. Andrew now works in Bedford School as Musician-in-Residence alongside a busy freelance career in various orchestras and ensembles. Andrew has been a member of both the Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchester and the European Union Youth Orchestra, and has played professionally with BBC Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestra amongst others.

Andrew's Reviews

Andrew Groom has been a trombone student at the Royal College of Music, London since September 2008. He entered the RCM as a very talented player and has subsequently developed into one of the most talented players of his generation. Andrew is, without doubt, an extremely accomplished trombonist both musically and technically, as he admirably showed in a recent RCM recital in which he achieved the highest mark of any trombonist in recent times. A career as a professional trombonist is well within his capabilities.

I have been teaching Andrew at The Royal College of Music for over 2 years. He is a most diligent student who takes all aspects of his study very seriously. Not only does he work very hard to master all technical aspects of his playing but he also has a keen sense of how these are to be put to practice in a musical sense. His present standard of performance is already very high but I anticipate that he will continue to build on this in the next years as he develops his career as a professional player.

Finlay Bain

30 September 2015