Demian Austin is principal trombonist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (1994-), and a member of the MET Orchestra Chamber Ensemble, which performs regularly at Carnegie Hall. He also performs regularly with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center and has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Festival Napa Valley. Austin has played on numerous recordings, including “Solos with Piano” for the Buffet-Crampon Group, the Metropolitan Opera Brass CDs, over 30 movie soundtracks, Dialogues with Double Bass with Jeremy McCoy on Bridge Records, Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale with members of the Bridgehampton Chamber Festival and Roger Waters, the GM Recordings issue of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and Brahms’ First Symphony conducted by Gunther Schuller, and many recordings with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, including Strauss’ Tod und Verklärung. He can also be heard regularly on Sirius Satellite Radio’s Live at the Met broadcasts, the Saturday Matinee Broadcasts of the Met, and on The Met: Live in HD worldwide movie simulcasts. Austin is also on faculty at the Manhattan School of Music, Mannes School of Music, Bard College Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School’s precollege division. Austin received his Bachelor of Music degree in 1992 from Oberlin College, where he studied with Raymond Premru, and his Master of Music degree in 1995 from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Per Brevig.
This is his first appearance at PMF.