Christian Lindberg (born 15 February 1958) is a Swedish trombonist, conductor and composer.

In 1981, Lindberg won the Nordic Soloists’ Biennale competition. His concert debut was in 1984 with the Trombone Concerto by Henri Tomasi. That same year, he signed a 3-CD recording contract with BIS Records. His first solo recording was “The Virtuoso Trombone”. Lindberg has recorded over 60 albums, for BIS[4] and several other labels. His musical collaborators in Sweden have included pianist Roland P”ontinen and composer Jan Sandstr”om.

Christian Lindberg is perhaps the first classical trombonist to maintain a successful full-time performing career as a soloist, now considered among the instrument’s foremost exponents. Since 2015, Christian Lindberg has been chief conductor of the Israel NK Orchestra, which is now visiting Konserthuset Stockholm for the first time ever. The ensemble has been ranked by the Israeli Ministry of Culture as the country’s most prominent orchestra, side by side with the Israel Philharmonic. Lindberg is one of Sweden’s most established names in music internationally. His career as a trombone player is unparalleled and in 2015, British Classical FM named him “The Greatest Brass Player in History.”

Christian Lindberg is perhaps the first classical trombonist to maintain a successful full-time performing career as a soloist, now considered among the instrument’s foremost exponents.

Christian Lindberg (born 15 February 1958) is a Swedish trombonist, conductor and composer.

Lindberg was born in Danderyd. As a youth, he learned to play the trumpet, and subsequently began to learn the trombone at age 16. He originally borrowed a trombone to join his friends’ Dixieland jazz group, inspired by records of Jack Teagarden. He attended the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, where his teachers included Sven-Erik Eriksson. By age 18, he had obtained a professional position in the Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra. At age 20, he left his orchestral career behind to study to become a full-time soloist. He studied with John Iveson at the Royal College of Music (1979-1980) and with Ralph Sauer and Roger Bobo in Los Angeles (1983).