Shawn Grocott, Canada
Trombone
Trombonist, Shawn Grocott, has made Germany his home since 1995. He left his native Canada after receiving his Bachelor of Music Education Degree from the University of Regina, in his home-town. He continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold under Prof. Heinz Fadle as well as at the Musikhochschule Lübeck with Prof. Ehrhard Wetz where he received his Artist’s Diploma.
Shawn’s musical tastes are widely varied which tends to take him in many different musical directions. Among his interests are: orchestral, big band, chamber, jazz and new music. He is a founding member of „World Brass“, has taken part in projects with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Bochumer Symphoniker, Theater Bielefeld, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie Herford and Landestheater Detmold, performs new music with “Ensemble Horizonte” and makes up half of the trombone and guitar jazz duo, “Shawn & the Wolf”.
Since October of 2009 Shawn has been a trombone instructor at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold and since 2013 is the leader of the school’s big band.