Susan "Sue" Addison (born 1955) is an English performer and professor of the

sackbut A sackbut is an early form of the trombone used during the Renaissance music, Renaissance and Baroque music, Baroque eras. A sackbut has the characteristic telescopic slide of a trombone, used to vary the length of the tube to change Pitch (m ...

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, and other early trombones. She specializes in playing historical music using authentic instruments of the age. She was a founding member and performed as the principal trombone player for the

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) is a British period instrument orchestra. The OAE is a resident orchestra of the Southbank Centre, London, associate orchestra at Glyndebourne Festival Opera Artistic Associate at Kings Place, and ...

. She was also a founding member of His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, and has played with them for 40 years.

Biography

Susan Addison was born in 1955 in

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and attended Monksdyke High School. She has said she was fifteen when she started learning the trombone, and only chose that instrument as that was the only one available to play at her school. She is a performer on the

, and other early trombones, and is a specialist in using authentic instruments of the age to play historical music. After studying the trombone at the Royal College of Music London, Addison joined the

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is a British orchestra based in Birmingham, England. It is the resident orchestra at Symphony Hall, Birmingham in Birmingham, which has been its principal performance venue since 1991. Its adminis ...

where she remained for four and a half years. She was a founder member of His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts in 1982 and has performed with the group for 40 years. She was a founding member of the

and performed with them as their principal trombone player. She has conducted research on the music and instruments of the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and in 2009, she released a recording using the actual trombone of famous composer

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after she discovered it at the

Royal College of Music The Royal College of Music (RCM) is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the undergraduate to the doctoral level in all aspects of Western Music including pe ...

. She is also principal for the Gabrieli Consort and Players and Amsterdam-based

Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century () is a Dutch early music orchestra. Frans Brüggen and Lucy van Dael co-founded the orchestra in 1981. Sieuwert Verster became financial manager in 1984. Although he did not have a formal title with the orc ...

. She was awarded an Hon.RAM from the

Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is one of the oldest music schools in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the firs ...

in 2002. Addison teaches at the

, the

Royal Northern College of Music The Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) is a conservatoire located in Manchester, England. It is one of four conservatoires associated with the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. In addition to being a centre of music education ...

Trinity College of Music Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a music, dance, and musical theatre conservatoire based in South East London. It was formed in 2005 as a merger of two older institutions – Trinity College of Music and Laban Dance Centre. Trini ...

and the

Birmingham Conservatoire Royal Birmingham Conservatoire is a music school, drama school and concert venue in Birmingham, England. It provides education in music, acting, and related disciplines up to postgraduate level. It is a centre for scholarly research and doct ...

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