Congratulations to the 2024 Christopher Monk Award recipient, Howard Weiner!
Howard Weiner, a native of Chicago, studied trombone with Frank Crisafulli at Northwestern University. In 1978 he moved to Europe where he studied early music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland, and established himself as a freelance musician performing with numerous ensembles and orchestras, including the Edward Tarr Brass Ensemble, the Freiburger Barockorchester, Cappella Coloniensis, the Basel Symphony and Radio Symphony Orchestras, and Ensemble Aventure Freiburg. Howard has authored a number of important articles on the history of the trombone and published editions of early trombone music. From 1997 he was assistant editor and since 2004 co-editor of the Historic Brass Society Journal. Moreover, he is a contributor and member of the editorial advisory board to the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments. Most recently, he co-edited The Early Trombone: A Catalogue of Music with Charlotte Leonard and Linda Pearse (published by Brepols in 2023).
For more information about The Monk Award, visit https://historicbrass.org/community/awards/christopher-monk-award.
