WORLDBRASS, HFM DETMOLD BIG BAND, SHAWN AND THE WOLF
SHAWN GROCOTT
MUSIC STYLE: Klassik, Jazz
INSTRUMENT: Vincent Bach
WEBPAGE: www.worldbrass.com/pages/de/ensemble/posaune/shawn-grocott.php

SHAWN GROCOTT

The Canadian trombonist, Shawn Grocott, has lived in Germany since 1995. After achieving his Bachelor of Music Education diploma at the University of Regina in Canada, Shawn moved to Detmold and studied trombone at the College of Music with Prof. Heinz Fadle, and at the Musikhochschule Lübeck with Prof. Ehrhard Wetz, where he finished his studies with the Artistic Diploma.

Shawn Grocotts' musical interests are very versatile. He is interested in many musical genres; he plays symphonic music and big band swing, chamber music and jazz, and also contemporary music, composed and freely improvised.

He has performed as a guest at the German Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, the Bielefeld Theatre, the North West German Philharmonic, and the Detmold Landestheater. Chamber music concerts with ''World Brass'' have led him to the Berlin Philharmonic and the Festspielhaus Baden Baden, among others. He plays contemporary music with the "Ensemble Horizonte" and as a jazz musician with his duo "Shawn and the Wolf", with whom has toured in Brazil, several times in Canada, and most recently to Albania in 2013.

Since 2009, Shawn Grocott has been a lecturer for trombone at the Detmold Academy of Music, and since 2013 he has been head of the Detmold Big Band.