Principal

Birthplace: Mayville Wisconsin

Grew up: Mayville Wisconsin

Started playing: 13

Education: L'Institute de Hautes Etudes Musicales, Montreux, Switzerland - fellowship student, 1974-75, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Bachelor of Music, 1976, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA - Master of Music, with honors, 1978

Began with PSO: 1978

Non-PSO Activities: Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Hampshire Consort, PortOpera, Portland Ballet, Handel and Haydn Society, and lots more. Also Professor of Music at University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

Other activities: NIC OROVICH...AND FRIENDS features music for solo trombone written especially for Nic Orovich by his colleagues at UNH in a wide variety of settings - one for trombone, recorder and synthesizer, another a concerto for trombone and wind symphony, and a setting for trombone and piano to the narrated William Steig short story, "The Amazing Bone." The cd also features a baroque trio performed with PSO tubist Donald Rankin, and former PSO trombonist Don Davis. Nicholas Orovich holds the rank of Professor of Music at UNH and has been the principal trombonist with the PSO since 1979. To purchase Nic Orovich's CD, please contact the UNH Department of Music web site for further information www.UNH.edu/music.com

Favorite music: Music of Brian Wilson

In my iPod: Don't own one!

Hobbies: I'm an avid bicyclist

Email: norovich@cisunix.unh.edu