Award-winning trombonist Robert Conquer is quickly establishing himself as one of Canada's finest and versatile young musicians. He is the Principal Trombonist of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, wherein he became its youngest tenured musician in 2024, and has been heard playing tenor trombone and euphonium with the Toronto Symphony, National Arts Centre, Hamilton Philharmonic, and National Ballet of Canada Orchestras. In the chamber music setting, Robert enjoys performing brass quintet music with various ensembles across Toronto, and he will soon be heard on the Art of Time Ensemble's new record Sankofa: The Soldier's Tale Retold, a brilliant reimagination of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat. As a soloist, Robert performed and recorded Nino Rota's Concerto per Trombone on tour with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada as the first-prize recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts - Michael Measures Prize. In 2021, he was the second-prize winner of this same award and was also named as one of CBC Classical Music's "30 Hot Classical Musicians Under 30." He was also the winner of the 2020 Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal Competition, wherein he also received the prize for best interpretation of a Canadian work in the semi-final round. He is the First Prize winner of numerous other solo competitions including the American Trombone Workshop National Solo Competition, Canadian National Music Festival and more.
Originally from Scarborough, Ontario, Robert studied privately with trombonist David Archer for three years before pursuing his undergraduate at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with Nitzan Haroz and Matthew Vaughn as a Carrie L. Tolson Memorial Fellow. Robert was recognized as one of Curtis' Presser Scholars, a prestigious scholarship awarded to a senior student who has high academic and musical accomplishments and embodies the qualities of leadership and citizenship.
,P.Robert is proud to be an S.E. Shires Artist, and he can virtually always be found attached to his trusted S.E. Shires TBSC Custom Model trombone.