Discipline: Visual Art

Preston Trombly

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1980, 1981, 1983, 1986
More: www.prestontrombly.com
Preston Andrew Trombly (b. 1945) is an American composer, visual artist, and broadcast personality. He is a program host on Sirius XM's Symphony Hall classical music channel. Trombly earned his Bachelor of Music from the University of Connecticut in 1969. He received a Master of Musical Arts degree from the Yale School of Music in 1972. He has been a Fellow in Composition and Conducting at the Tanglewood Music Center (1970), a Guggenheim Fellow (1974–1975), and a resident fellow at MacDowell. Trombly's visual art has been shown in multiple exhibitions, principally in the New York area. In the early 1980s Trombly was active as a saxophonist and jazz clarinetist. He played with the Jaki Byard group, and also as a soloist. He has taught at Vassar College, CUNY, and the Catholic University of America. Trombly was a classical music program host at WNCN-FM from 1991 to 1995, and at WQXR-FM from 1991 to 2000. He was also a newscaster and staff announcer at WOR-AM from 1991 to 2008. He joined Sirius Satellite Radio in 2000. In 1997 Trombly married Margaret Mary Kelly, then the director of the Forbes Magazine Collection.

Studios

Barnard

Preston Trombly worked in the Barnard studio.

Originally built near MacDowell's Union Street entrance, the Barnard Studio — which was funded by Barnard College music students — was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room. This remodeling, financed by Mrs. Thomas E. Emery of Cincinnati…

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