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Jessica was the First prize winner of the international trombone competitions "Concours Branimir Slokar 2000 " in Switzerland and "Lieksa trombone competition 1998" in Finland. She also got third prize in "Concorso Internazionale Giovani Concertisti 2000" Porcia, Italy. Jessica studied at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden with Ingemar Roos and Christian Lindberg. She got her soloist diploma 2002 performing Christopher Rouse´s Trombone Concerto with the Symphony Orchestra of Gothenburg. She has also studied in France with Michael Bequet and in Chicago, U.S.A with Arnold Jacobs, Jay Friedman and Edward
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| During her stay in Chicago she became a member of The Civic Orchestra of Chicago in which she had the advantage to work with conducters as Daniel Barenboim and Pierre Boulez. Jessica received the Swedish honour prize "Kristallen den fina" ("Crystal prize ") 2002, with the motivation:"With engagement and success she has made valuable achievements in contemporary music.
Her artistic personality is characterized by a strong stage presence and an intense, warm sound, distinctive, like the chrystal itself, reflektive warmth, force, luminosity and long resonance." Jessica is a member of Trombone Unit 2000 and when performing at the ITF 2002 in Denton, Texas the reviewer wrote; -one of the absolute highlights of the concert was the Carmen suite, featuring Jessica Gustavsson.- Her alto trombone playing was simply tremendous. |
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