Blair Bollinger is the bass trombonist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He joined the orchestra at age 23 - the youngest trombonist in any major American orchestra at that time.

As a soloist, Blair has performed with The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Atlanta Symphony and The Savannah (GA) Symphony. He has been a guest artist at international and domestic trombone conferences. He has performed recitals and given master classes in Brazil, Chile, China, Holland, Israel, Japan, Poland and throughout the United States. As a student, he won the 1986 Philadelphia Orchestra Senior Student Competition, and remains the only trombonist to win this competition since it began in 1934, as well as the only bass trombone soloist ever with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

His recordings include a solo disc, Fancy Free, for d'Note Records, hailed by American Record Guide as "The recording I've been waiting for...an amazing display of Bollinger's virtuoso skills." Other recordings are Four of a Kind - a trombone quartet disc, and a Gabrieli disc with the Canadian Brass. His arrangements of music for trombone are published by Ensemble Publications in New York and Alphonse Leduc in Paris. With Four of a Kind, Blair has toured Japan and been featured in several trombone conferences. Their new CD should be released in early 2002.

Blair is a 1986 graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music where he studied with Charles Vernon and Glenn Dodson. He is now on faculty at Curtis and Temple University. In addition to teaching private lessons, he conducts brass and percussion ensembles and coaches chamber music. He has spent recent summers performing in the Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming and conducting and teaching at the Bar Harbor Brass Week in Maine.