Euan Edmonds is a professional freelance trombonist, composer, and educator currently residing in the Washington DC area. Prior to returning to the east coast Euan spent the majority of his career living in Chicago, Illinois where he was an active participant in Chicago’s vibrant creative music and jazz music scenes. There he also worked as a freelance trombonist playing in all styles of music imaginable. Most recently he can be heard on the recordings: Tri-Colored Eyes by Clark Gibson (2019), Liminality by Erik Skov (2019), and Desafío Candente by Gustavo Cortiñas (2021).
He has performed with a wide variety of groups and ensembles from The Temptations to The Glenn Miller Orchestra, to the national tour of the 2008 revival of the Broadway musical The Pajama Game and at venues and clubs across the world from Club Zinco in Mexico City, to The Venetian in Macau, to the Chicago Jazz Festival and Washington DC’s Kennedy Center.
He is a graduate of Shepherd University, where he studied trombone with Dr. Frank Gazda and Dr. Natalie Mannix, and jazz and improvisation with Fred Hughes, Tom Williams, and Frank Russo. He later earned his Master’s and Doctorate degrees from the University of Illinois where he studied trombone, composition and arranging, and jazz studies with Jim Pugh, Chip McNeill, and Stephen Taylor.