Haroz, Nitzan

He is a trombone player born in Israel to a family where his mother is the harpist Adina Haroz and his uncle is the cellist Micha Haran who was Principal Cello with the Israel Philharmonic. He studied at the Juilliard School on an America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship and won the first prize of the Francois Shapira Competition.

He has performed with the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony and as first trombone with the Israel Defense Forces Orchestra. He went on to be Assistant Principal Trombone of the New York Philharmonic and in 1995 became Principal Trombone of The Philadelphia Orchestra. He moved orchestras and was Principal Trombone with the Los Angeles Philharmonic between 2012 to 2014 before returning to The Philadelphia Orchestra.

As a soloist he performed the world premiere of Roland Pontinen’s “Blue Winter for trombone and orchestra” at his solo debut at Carnegie Hall with The Philadelphia Orchestra. He has also given solo performances with other orchestras that include the Fairbanks Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, the Israel Symphony, the Jerusalem Symphony and the Sofia Radio Symphony.

He regularly performs as a chamber musician and recitalist and commissioned several works for trombone and harp, which he has performed with his mother. Ensembles he has performed with include the Israel Defense Forces Brass Quintet, the Israel Brass Ensemble, the National Brass Ensemble and Rishon-Le Zion Brass Quintet.

Recordings he has performed on include his own Towards the Light along with Fancy Free: Music for Bass Trombone by Blair Bollinger, New Brass by Michael Davis, The Travels of Babar – An Adventure in Scales and the Circle of Fifths by Jean De Brunhoff, Raphael Mostel and Laurent De Brunhoff, Blues for the Bad Man by John Ellis, John Adams: The Gospel According to the Other Mary by The Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Master Chorale, Gabrieli by the National Brass Ensemble, Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No, 6 “Pathetique”/Dumka and Peter Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet/String Serenade/Francesca Da Rimini/Brass Quintets Nos. 1 & 3 by The Philadelphia Orchestra and the video Slide Factory 2011 by the New Trombone Collective.

In the field of musical education he has been a faculty member of the Curtis Institute of Music since 1998 and also teaches at the Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University. He has given master classes nationally and internationally and frequently participates around the world as a clinician at trombone conferences.

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