Trombone Masterclass with MET Orchestra Trombonist Weston Sprott

Weston Sprott

Weston Sprott is a prominent thought leader, administrator, performer, and educator in classical music. He is Dean and Director of the Preparatory Division at the Juilliard School, leading the Pre-College and the Music Advancement Program (MAP), and a trombonist in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.

Sprott is a champion of diversity and inclusion in classical music. His efforts contributed to the creation of the Black Orchestral Network, the National Alliance for Audition Support, Sphinx Orchestral Partners Auditions Excerpt Competition, and Classical Tahoe Academy, as well as numerous other initiatives that are shifting the landscape of the industry. He is a recipient of the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, the Sphinx Venture Fund, the Atlanta Symphony’s Aspire Award, and Community Music Center of Boston’s John Kleshinski Award. He has contributed as a speaker, writer, and consultant for various organizations, conferences, universities, and publications. 

As an educator, Sprott holds faculty positions at The Juilliard School, Bard College Conservatory of Music, Music Academy of the West, Aspen Music Festival and School, and SICMF. He frequently appears as a guest teacher for the New World Symphony and The Orchestra Now and has presented over a hundred masterclasses at conservatories and colleges around the world.

THE METROPOLITAN ORCHESTRA

Thrilling audiences with more than 200 performances each season, the MET Orchestra is one of the world’s great performing ensembles, both on stage and in the opera pit. Since its founding in 1883, the MET Orchestra’s performances have encompassed not only the entire opera repertoire, but symphonic and chamber programs at Carnegie Hall, international tours, and countless musician activities outside of the Metropolitan Opera House. The MET Orchestra has grown in the past four decades into an ensemble noted by singers, critics, conductors, and audiences as one of today’s most stylistically versatile and musically satisfying orchestras.