Vinko Globokar

Composer and trombonist Vinko Globokar was born in 1934 in Anderny, France. From age 12 to 21, he lived in Ljubljana (Slovenia) where he made his debut as a jazz musician. Subsequently he studied trombone and composition at the National Conservatory in Paris.
Globokar has premiered a large number of trombone works composed by, among others, Luciano Berio, Mauricio Kagel, Karlheinz Stockhausen, René Leibowitz Louis Andriessen, Jürg Wyttenbach, Toru Takemitsu and himself
The complete instrumental and stylistic mastery which Globokar possesses has made him distrustful of any and all conventions. His inimitable contribution to contemporary music consists above all in the imaginative use of classical musical instruments and of non-musical objects.
Globokar's music absorbs the world in order to transform it. His watchword is function and this applies both to the means and to the end. Beyond all of the sensual experience, the fundamental themes such as power, emigration and resistance must all possess this quality which, at one point, was ascribed to illuminist philosophy. To make this exercise succeed, one must remove one's ego. Only someone who really has something to say can succeed in this.