Zhen Lei
Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra Principal trombone (2014-2019), served as the Korea KBS Symphony Orchestra's Guest Principal trombone (2014). In 2004, Strat the first year at Central Conservatory of Music, under the Trombone Professor Zhao Ruilin, Professor Liu Yang.
In 2006, he represented the Chinese Youth Symphony Orchestra on a successful visit to Germany to attend the Beethoven International Music Festival. After graduating in 2008, he joined the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra as bass trombonist and created a GSO brass quintet, which who won the first prize of the Chinese Music Golden Bell Award. He was then sent by the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra to Temple University in Philadelphia, USA, where he studied with Blair Bollinger, Bass Trombonist of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. While in the United States, he participated in the tour of the American Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Temple University as the bass trombonist. In May 2010,he returned to China and start The Acting principal trombone at Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra. During this period, he has toured several countries, including Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Singapore and Australia, with the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra. In July 2011, Eirc Ewazen's bass trombone concerto was performed in collaboration with the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra. At the end of 2011, he went to Chicago to continue his studied at the Chicago College of Performing Arts for a diploma in the Arts, from Jay Friedman Principal of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Elgin Symphony, Principal trombone Reed Capshaw. A year after he won the first prize in the Chicago University of The Performing Arts Concerto Competition in April 2013, and in November of the same year, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Concerto was successfully performed by the Chicago College of Performing Arts Symphony Orchestra. In April 2014, he start the Guest Principal trombone at the KBS Symphony Orchestra of South Korea. Since September of the same year, he won the Principal trombone position of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra. Musicians who have worked together during this period include Yoyo Ma, Jaab Van Zweden, Christoph Eschenbach, Maxim Vengerov, Matthias Goerne, Helene Grimaud, Krzysztofof Penderrecki, ETC.: In January 2015, the Tomasi Trombone Concerto was performed in collaboration with the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Yaron Traub, Director of the Valencia Orchestra of Spain. Masters classes have been held in universities since the same year, and in 2017 they were named outstanding musicians in Guangdong Province, and in the same year they participated in the tour of the Provincial Musicians Association, including The Fairinande Dave trombone Concerto in the opening ceremony with the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra. And his second Brass Quintor CD album will be released in 2019.