At an early stage in his career he joined Yo Yo Ma and Gidon Kremer as the BBC Music Magazine’s soloist of the year.   In 2000, together with Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis, he was voted by an international poll the greatest brass player of the 20^th century.   He was the first Swedish instrumentalist ever to be invited to perform as soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony and in May 2007 he was artist-in-residence at the Vienna Musikverein, the stronghold of traditional classical music.

Christian Lindberg has worked with almost every major orchestra and conductor in the world today.  For a trombonist to achieve all this before turning 50 is remarkable.

Lindberg took up the trombone at 17 inspired by the jazz player Jack Teagarden.   At 18 he gained admission to the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and, after having played for only two years, he obtained a position as trombonist in the orchestra of the Royal Swedish Opera.   At 20 he left the orchestra and has since built up a unique and impressive career as the first trombone soloist in history, as well as embarking on two enormously successful careers as conductor and composer.   At the same time Christian and his wife have raised a family of four children, now grown up with their own careers.

Today Lindberg’s schedule is fully booked for years ahead.   This schedule combines being Chief Conductor of the Nordic Chamber Orchestra and the Swedish Wind Ensemble with guest conducting orchestras such as the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Giuseppe Verdi Orchestra of Milan, working on composition commissions from ensembles such as the Chicago Symphony, Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir;  and continuing his solo appearances with orchestras including the London Philharmonic , the BBC Symphony, the NDR Orchestra in Germany and Tokyo’s Yomiuri Orchestra.

Parallel with all these activities, Christian Lindberg makes sure he can devote some valuable leisure time to his family at their country residence on a peninsula of the beautiful Stockholm Archipelago.