T.S. Galloway

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T.S. Galloway is trombonist, musical director, composer and arranger, a.o. for Fra Fra Big Band. Receiving his education in the U.S.A., he graduated with a BA in music at the Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL.

T.S. Galloway lived in the Netherlands from 1981 till 1998, and has returned in December 2002. He taught arranging and composition at the Sweelinck Conservatory from 1986 till 1995 and was the musical director and arranger for three very successful musicals in the Netherlands: A Night at the Cotton Club, Josephine and Bubblin’ Brown Sugar. He moved back to Chicago from 1998 till end of 2002, where he taught composition and arranging at Columbia College in Chicago. He was the musical conductor and arranger for projects STOP TIME, an initiative from the McArthur Foundation to explore the music of Jelly Roll Morton, for the Center for Black Music Research, and worked in the same capacity for Jerry Butler and Oscar Brown Jr.