ABOUT US

Stephen Lange has held the Assistant Principal Trombone Chair of the Saint Louis Symphony since 2000.  Before joining the SLSO, Mr. Lange performed one season with the San Antonio Symphony.  Mr. Lange has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Opera House Orchestra, and the Extension Ensemble, and the Colorado Music Festival.  He has taught at the University of Texas at San Antonio and is currently on faculty at Washington University in St. Louis.   A graduate of Indiana University and the Juilliard School of Music, Mr. Lange studied with Keith Brown and Joseph Alessi.

Gerry Pagano joined the SLSO as Bass Trombonist in 1995. He received a BM and MM from The Juilliard School in 1987, and was a member of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra from 1987 until 1995. He has played with The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra of New York, San Francisco Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, and performed master classes at the universities of Missouri, Illinois, Georgia, among many others. His teachers have included Philip Jameson, Per Brevig, and Charles Vernon.

Jonathan Reycraft, originally from Long Island, New York, is the Utility Trombonist with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.  Prior to holding this post he was performing as the Assistant Principal trombonist with the United States Naval Academy Band in Annapolis, Maryland.  Mr. Reycraft completed his Bachelor of Music degree in Trombone from the Indiana University School of Music in the spring of 1998 and his Master of Music degree in the same discipline from the University of Maryland in 2005.  During the past several years, he has competed in the Minnesota Orchestra Zellmer Competition and the National Solo Competition held at the Eastern Trombone Workshop in 2004.  Mr. Reycraft’s former teachers include Michael Canipe, M. Dee Stewart, Scott Hartman, Dr. Milton Stevens and John Huling. 

The Trombones of the Saint Louis Symphony play Greenhoe-Bach trombones.