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John Huling
Adjunct faculty, Trombone
Wind & Percussion Division
B.M.,New England Conservatory
John Huling has been the Assistant Principal Trombonist of the National Symphony Orchestra since 1986. He is a 1980 graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where he attended on full scholarship and received his Bachelor of Music degree with Distinction on Trombone. His principal teachers have been John Swallow, Ronald Barron, and Milton Stevens. Mr. Huling has been an Adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Music since 1992 where he teaches studio trombone and, for the last two years, has led the University of Maryland Trombone Ensemble. He is also an adjunct faculty member at The Catholic University of America.
In 1996, Mr. Huling was a guest soloist and clinician at the Eastern Trombone Workshop, premiering a new arrangement for trombone and band of Jacque Casterede's "Sonatine". Before joining the NSO, Mr. Huling played Principal Trombone in the San Diego Symphony for one year and between 1980 and 1985 performed regularly with the Boston Pops Orchestra. He is on several Boston Pops' recordings and television shows from that period. He was also a member of the Boston Ballet Orchestra and has performed with the San Francisco Symphony. In 1991 he attended the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Mr. Huling lives in Fairfax Station, VA with his wife Pam and their three children.
