Hailed by the New York Music Daily as a “carefree” and “soulful” player, Kevin A. Virgilio is a Boston-based trombonist and educator whose performances run the gamut of contemporary and classical styles.

 

An active freelance musician, Dr. Virgilio has recently appeared with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the New York Festival Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Concert Chorale, the Bergen Symphony Orchestra, and the Westchester Oratorio Society. A celebrated pit musician, Dr. Virgilio appears regularly with many notable musical theater productions, including West-Side Story, In the Heights, A Christmas Carol, An American in Paris, Disney's Frozen, and The Music Man. He made his solo debut at Carnegie Hall in March of 2023 performing Sergei Rachmaninoff's Opus 3 Elégie. Dr. Virgilio is currently on faculty at Groton Hill Music Center, Needham Music in Needham, Massachusetts, and Brookline Public Schools, and has held faculty positions at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Luzerne Music Center at Lake Luzerne, New York, and with Boston's very own Handel and Haydn Society.

 

Included among his many engagements in the 2024/25 season is the New England premier of Tōru Takemitsu's delicate and lyrical Fantasma/Cantos II for trombone and orchestra with the Boston University Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sarah Ioannides.

 

Kevin lives in Jamaica Plain with his wife Jenna and their grey tabby cat, Daisy. He loves to run and he trains for road races with his running club for wind instrumentalists, Run With the Winds.