DECLAN WILCOX

Declan is a bass trombonist and educator based in New York City, where he stays busy playing chamber and orchestral music, jazz, and new music. He is the bass trombonist of Symphony in C and performs regularly with the Princeton Symphony and the Syracuse Orchestra.

Declan has been a member of the National Repertory Orchestra as well as the Spoleto Festival Orchestra. He was the winner of the 2022 International Women's Brass Conference Bass Trombone Orchestral Excerpts competition and a finalist in the 2020 American Trombone Workshop National Solo Competition, Division Ill.

A passionate educator, Declan has been a Teaching Artist with Yale's Music in Schools Initiative and served as trombone faculty at the Morse Summer Music Academy. Previously, he was the Band Area Director for the University of Colorado Middle School Ensemble. Through education and outreach, Declan aims to help students and communities foster a lifelong love of music, a goal central to his life. 

An advocate for new music, Declan has premiered brass chamber works by composers such as Lila Meretzky, Harriet Steinke and Addison Maye-Saxon. He has a particular interest in expanding the brass chamber repertoire, and arranges and commissions works to that end.

Declan earned both his Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Music Education degrees at the University of Colorado. He earned his Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music, where he was awarded the John Swallow Prize.