

He graduated in 2015 from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with a First Class Honours Degree. During his time at Guildhall he received regular lessons with Eric Crees, Peter Gane and Christopher Houlding and later with Fabrice Millischer of Freiburg Musikhochschule and Guilhem Kusnierek at the Hochschule for Music Saar.įrom 2016 until 2020 Kris was working as a member of the German Radio Philharmonic, and since 2021 is the solo trombonist of the WDR Symphony Orchestra. As well as winning the first prize in the ARD Competition, he also won the ‘audience prize’ plus numerous ‘special’ awards. On top of this he has had competition success as the Gold Medal winner of the 2019 Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition in London, and is first prize winner of the 2022 International Soloists Competition in Grenchen, 2019 Jeju International Music Competition, the 2019 International IPV (International German Trombone Association) Competition in Germany, 2018 International Tenor and Bass Trombone Competition in Budapest and the 2018 International Juozas Pakalnis Competition of Wind and Percussion Instruments in Vilnius.

Your browser does not support the audio element.Kris Garfitt is first prize winner of the International ARD Music Competition in Munich, a Courtois Performing Artist and Solo Trombonist of the WDR Symphony Orchestra. If you are looking for specific custom tempos, email us at This is a fantastic tool to prepare your solo part for a performance, concert, recital, lesson, simply be better prepared with your part before playing with your human piano accompanist, or just to have fun! Available now as a downloadable MP3! Clicks are included where needed to assist entering with the accompaniment. Looking for a play-along piano accompaniment to practice Guy Ropartz's Piece in Eb minor for Trombone and Piano? Look no further! Included here is the MP3 audio track so you can practice with your own accompanist anytime and anywhere! Due to interpret-able speeds, tempos have been chosen that are average and moderate.
