Los Angeles native Michael Seltzer has performed in many of the world’s major concert halls. He has performed/recorded with Sting, David Byrne, Joe Zawinul, Marcel Khalifé, Branford Marsalis, Fatboy Slim, members of Frank Zappa’s band and the stars of Monty Python. He has also performed extensively on Broadway.
He is featured/solo trombonist of Manhattan Brass and Philadelphia Big Brass and the cross-genre chamber orchestra-cum-rock band, Absolute Ensemble. Orchestral performances include the Orchestra of St Luke’s, American Composer’s Orch., NY City Opera, American Symphony, Metropolitan Opera (banda), Sarajevo Symphony, Adelaide (Australia) Symphony.
Mr. Seltzer has performed on and produced chamber music recordings to international critical acclaim. He is a multiple-time Grammy award nominee including 2004’s winning Broadway Cast Album for Bernadette Peters’ revival of ‘Gypsy’. He has performed and recorded contemporary music with Bang-on-a-Can Marathon and ST-X Ensemble Xenakis. He has performed with the New York Collegium and American Classical Orchestra, New York’s acclaimed early music orchestras and also enjoys solo performance, appearing in recital at the Caramoor Festival’s winter ‘Artist Spotlight’ series and for Lincoln Center’s ‘Meet-the-Artist’ series.
Mr. Seltzer has been a panelist for Chamber Music America’s National Conferences and has been a guest clinician/lecturer at many esteemed institutions including Princeton University, The Juilliard School, the Curtis Institute, UCLA, Indiana University at Bloomington, Temple University, and the Hochschulen für Music in Bremen and Stuttgart, Germany among others. He is currently on the faculty of Columbia University. He has designed educational programs for Midori & Friends, the Fischoff Chamber Music Society, and Manhattan Brass, of which he is a founding member.
