Matthew Gee

Matthew is Principal Trombone with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Aurora Orchestra and the brass septet Septura. He is also on the teaching faculty at the Royal Academy of Music in London. 

He has released four solo albums, the final two on NAXOS exploring song cycles such as Schubert’s Winterreise and Elgar’s Sea Pictures, whilst the first two challenge commonly held stereotypes surrounding the trombone.

Matthew has performed with orchestras and ensembles all over the world, including the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Klangforum Wein, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and has recorded and appeared in many films and television scores. In 2023 he performed at the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Westminster Abbey.

After studying Music at King’s College London and the Royal College of Music, Matthew took up the position of Section Principal trombone with the Orchestra of Scottish Opera. After a brief stint with the Orquesta Filharmónica de Santiago (Chile) he then returned to the UK to join the Orchestra of Opera North. Further study saw Matthew attend the Hochschule der Künste, Bern, where he was awarded the Eduard Tschumi award for gaining the highest mark in the soloists diploma course.

As a soloist Matthew has performed internationally and has had a number of works written for him, most notably Circus Games and Trombone Sonata by Rob Keeley, and Fischietto è morto by Gary Carpenter. He gave the U.K. Première of Kurt Schwertsik’s Trombone Concerto at St. Johns’, Smith Square and has performed and taken masterclasses at many festivals, including those in Melbourne, Wellington, New York, Sarajevo, Lieksa (Finland), Isla Verde (Argentina) and Beijing. Concerto performances include works by Tomasi, Rimsky-Korsakov, Buxton Orr, Derek Bourgeois, Chris de Souza, Ferdinand David, Johann Albrechtsberger and Luciano Berio’s demanding concerto Solo in the beautiful Konzerthaus in Bern. Matthew is a Getzen artist.