Douglas Yeo - Performance and Recording Highlights

Performance and Recording Highlights

• He has been a soloist with the Boston and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras; on both occasions becoming the first bass trombonist to perform as soloist with either orchestra.

• In 1991, he gave the premiere of Vaclav Nelhybel's Concerto for Bass Trombone with the New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble.

• He performed John Williams' Tuba Concerto with the Boston Pops Orchestra under Mr. Williams, becoming the first bass trombonist to perform the piece.

• He gave the first performance of Lawrence Wolfe's Wildfire with the University of Washington Wind Ensemble in 1995.

• He has premiered numerous compositions by Norman Bolter including Temptation for serpent and string quartet, Ancestors for digeridoo, shofar and serpent, and La Grotte Cosquer for tenor and bass trombones.

• His first solo recording, Proclamation, with The Black Dyke Mills Band, featured premieres of four newly commissioned works: Proclamation by Gordon Langford, Rainy Day In Rio by Goff Richards, Triptych by Lawrence Wolfe, and Tribute to George Roberts, arranged by Bill Geldard.

• His second solo recording, Take 1, featured live solo performances given in concert from 1975-1997 including Alan Hovhannes' Symphony Number 34, Opus 310 for Bass Trombone and Strings.

• His solo recording, Cornerstone, of arrangements of hymns and gospel songs for bass trombone and piano, was released in 2000.

• In March 2002, he recorded Two Of A Mind, an album of solos and duets with British tenor trombonist Nick Hudson, accompanied by the Williams Fairey Band and pianist David Chapman.

• In May 1997, he performed Simon Proctor's Concerto for Serpent and Orchestra with the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of John Williams.

• An album released in 2003, Le Monde du Serpent, features his playing serpent in repertoire spanning over three centuries.

• In 1999 and 2004 he was a featured guest artist and clinician at the International Trombone Festival.

• In 1999 he also performed the Christopher Brubeck Concerto for Bass Trombone and Orchestra with the Boston Pops Orchestra.

• In 2000, his performance of the finale of the Brubeck Concerto, "James Brown in the Twilight Zone", was broadcast on television as part of the "Evening at Pops" series on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).