The Swedish-Swiss trombonist Louise Pollock has been appointed Professor of Trombone at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin for the winter semester 2023/24 and will succeed Prof Christhard Gössling and Prof Olaf Ott in the trombone class.

Louise Pollock was principal trombonist at the Gothenburg Opera in Sweden from 2015 to 2023 and also led the trombone class at the University of Gothenburg Academy of Music and Drama. Prior to this, she was a member of the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra for three years. She has performed as a soloist with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, the Bjergsted Blåsensemble, the Gothenburg Opera and the Duisburg Philharmonic, among others.

She has won numerous prizes at national and international competitions, was a scholarship holder of the 2014 German Music Competition of the German Music Council and was awarded 1st prize and audience prize at the International Aeolus Wind Competition in Düsseldorf in 2016.

She is asked to be a jury member at international competitions and is invited to give masterclasses and teach at festivals such as Brassweek Samedan in Switzerland, Tourbon Brass Festival in Chile, Tromboholizm Trombone Music Festival in Poznan and Corno Brass Music Festival Zielona Gora in Poland, the Norwegian Bjergsted Brass Festival Stavanger, the Low Brass Network and the International Trombone Festival in the USA. In 2023, she was elected 1st Chairwoman of the International Trombone Association e.V. and to the Board of Advisors of the International Trombone Association.

Louise Pollock grew up in Switzerland and graduated from the Mathematisch-Wissenschaftliches Gymnasium Zurich at the top of her year. She completed her Bachelor’s degree with Prof. Branimir Slokar at the University of Music in Freiburg i. Br., and went on to complete her Master’s degree with Prof. Henning Wiegräbe at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart. She is a Conn Artist and plays exclusively on a Conn 88H, which was built in the early 1950s.