Bass trombone 

Wouter Iseger (Utrecht, 1978) began his orchestral career as bass- and contrabass trombonist with the Orchestra of the Flemish Opera (Belgium), starting in 2004. From 2009 until 2017 he was a member of the Dutch Ballet Orchestra. In august 2017 he was appointed as bass- and contrabasstrombonist of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra in Amsterdam, the “house orchestra’s’ of the Dutch National Opera and the Royal Concertgebouw.

Iseger studied bass- and contrabasstrombone with Ben van Dijk at the Rotterdam Conservatory. He received lessons (among others) from Joe Alessi and John Rojak in New York, Michael Mulcahy in Chicago, Heinz Fadle in Detmold (Germany), George Wiegel, Jörgen van Rijen, Bart van Lier, Erik van Lier and Michel Bequet. He performed with orchestras as the Residentie Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. 

As a soloist he regularly performs with (wind) orchestras, organ, piano and in chamber music. He encourages composers to write new music for his instrument. His first solo album “Bass trombone on air”, containing seven new pieces for bass trombone by the Dutch composer Eddy Koopman, is a result of this.

Wouter Iseger has appeared as guest teacher at the Conservatories of Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam.

Wouter Iseger has also studied wind band conducting at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. After his studies he took lessons with Jan Stulen and participated in masterclasses of the Brittish conductor Mark Wigglesworth and the Dutch conductor Edo de Waart. He conducted the Dutch Marine band, the Band of the Netherlands Mounted Regiments and was chief conductor of the Dutch Railroad Band (1998-2004) and many other Dutch wind bands. He received several prizes at competitions, like the National Championship in 2009 and a first prize with distinction at the World Music Contest in Kerkrade in 2017. He is is a frequently asked guest conductor.

Wouter has written several texts about Utrecht, the city where he was born, and a book about the Dom tower, the tallest medieval tower (1382) of The Netherlands.

He also graduated at the Dutch Wine Academy and teaches about wine.

The instruments of Wouter Iseger are built by Thein Brass (Bremen, Germany)