Welcome to the website of

William Osborne & Abbie Conant

                               

 

 

 

 

NEW!!!!

 

Trombone Quartet Study in Trossingen, Germany

 

Das Trossinger Posaunenquartett Institut sucht Bewerber

 

Video Clips and Stills From Our New DVD of 

Music for the End of Time

 

Thirty Memos for Piano

 

Video Interviews With the Seven Judges of

The Porcia International Trombone Competition 2007

 

My Trombone Teaching Philosophy

La mia filosofia di insegnamento del trombone
Die Philosophie meines Posaunenunterrichts

A ten page article describing Prof. Abbie Conant's pedagogical concepts, 

also available in German and Italian.

 

Helene Kenyeri fired by the Vienna State Opera

 

HERR-LICHE ORCHESTER? 

Über die Situation von Frauen im Orchester von Nadine Dietrich 

Das Orchester, September 2007 (S. 32-35) 

 

Chronologie: Frauen bei den Wiener Philharmonikern

Der Standard, 13. Dezember 2006

 

Vienna Philharmonic Update - December 31, 2007

(Recent information about the orchestra's employment 

practices concerning women and racial minorities)

 

Sixty-Seven Selected Documents by William 

Added to the Email Archive 

(from mid 2005 through November 2007 on topics ranging 

from Arts Funding to Musicology to Composing to Current Politics)

 

Winners of the Maria-Paijmans-Kania Music Prize 2007 for Trombone

 

Five Radio Broadcasts

(About the Vienna Philharmonic and women in orchestras.)

 

Vienna Philharmonic Update 2006

(The status of women and people of color in the Vienna State Opera Orchestra/Vienna Philharmonic ten years after it 
nominally ended its discriminatory policies.)
 

 

The Vienna Philharmonic and Racism in American Classical Music

 

Contact Information  

E-mail address

William: william@osborne-conant.org

Abbie: abbie@osborne-conant.org 

Phone: (+49) 7404 8531

Fax: (+49) 7404 8429

[49 is the international code for Germany]

 

This site had 100,271 visitors in the last year (June 1,  2005 to May 6, 2006.)

They made 1,207,285 hits.

In March 2006 we averaged 451 visitors per day.

The site was founded in 2001 and the numbers have been rising ever since.

Thanks to all for supporting our website.