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Artist
Adriana Wagner
2+ albums
trombonejazzinstrumentalcomposermodern jazz
about
Adriana Wagner has been creating music since she was a little kid. “I would write the corniest songs and try to sing them all the time,” the Portland State University senior remembers. But even though she played trombone in her middle- and high-school bands, and won national competitions as a member of Portland’s famous American Music Program, founded by the late Thara Memory for high school students, “I could never get anyone to show me how to write music until I was in college.” By then, after years of sexist resistance to “the girl trombonist,” she was “too scared, too vulnerable” to push hard for help until her sophomore year. Fortunately, sympathetic professors at the University of Oregon and PSU welcomed her early efforts. And last year her college mentor George Colligan pointed Wagner to an organization that could help her fully realize her ambition to write original jazz music. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
