Susan "Sue" Addison (born 1955) is an English performer and professor of the

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, and other early trombones. She specializes in playing historical music using authentic instruments of the age. She was a founding member and performed as the principle trombone player for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. She was also a founding member of His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, and played with them for 25 years.

Biography

Susan Addison was born in 1955 in

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and attended Monksdyke High School. She has said she was fifteen when she started learning the trombone, and only chose that instrument as that was the only one available to play at her school. She is a performer of the

, and other early trombones, and is a specialist in using authentic instruments of the age to play historical music. Following studies of the trombone at the Royal College of Music London, Addison joined the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra where she remained for four and a half years. She was a founder of His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts in 1982 and performed with the group for 25 years. She was a founding member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and performed with them as their principle trombone player. She has conducted research on the music and instruments of the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and in 2009, she released a recording using the actual trombone of famous composer

Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestr ...

after she discovered it at the

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. She was also principal for the

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and Amsterdam-based

Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century ( nl, Orkest van de Achttiende Eeuw) is a Dutch early music orchestra. Frans Brüggen and Lucy van Dael co-founded the orchestra in 1981. Sieuwert Verster became financial manager in 1984. Although he did no ...

. She was awarded an Hon.RAM from the

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in 2002. Addison teaches at the

, the

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and the

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