Background
Trombly is the son of Perley A. Trombly, who owned a printing company in Manchester, Connecticut, and Elizabeth Sage Trombly.
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Preston Trombly
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Trombly earned his Bachelor of Music from the University of Connecticut in 1969.
Career
He received a Master of Musical Arts degree from the Yale School of Music in 1972. He has been a Fellow in Composition and Conducting at the Tanglewood Music Center (1970), a Guggenheim Fellow (1974–1975), and a resident fellow at the MacDowell Colony. Trombly"s visual art has been shown in multiple exhibitions, principally in the New York area.
In the early 1980s Trombly was active as a saxophonist and jazz clarinettist.
He played with the Jaki Byard group, and also as a soloist. He has taught at Vassar College, City University of New York and the Catholic University of America.
Trombly was a classical music program host at WNCN-FM from 1991 to 1995, and at WQXR-FM from 1991 to 2000. He was also a newscaster and staff announcer at WOR-Department of Administration and Management from 1991 to 2008.
He joined Sirius Satellite Radio in 2000.
In 1997 Trombly married Margaret Mary Kelly, then the director of the Forbes Magazine Collection.
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United States