Trombones

Toby Oft

Principal

J.P. and Mary B. Barger Chair, endowed in perpetuity

Toby Oft joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as principal trombone at the start of the 2008-09 season. The son of music educators, he was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He started playing trombone with his father Michael Oft at age six.
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Stephen Lange

A native of Dallas, Texas, Stephen Lange joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra trombone section in fall 2010. Previously, he held the assistant principal trombone chair of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra from 2000 to 2010, making his solo debut with the orchestra in 2007 in Frank Martin’s Concerto for Seven Wind Instruments.
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Douglas Yeo (on leave)

John Moors Cabot Chair, endowed in perpetuity

Douglas Yeo was born in Monterey California and grew up in Queens and Valley Stream, New York, where he began playing the trombone at the age of nine. He has been bass trombonist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1985;
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