Kris Garfitt is the first prize winner of the International ARD Music Competition 2022, a Courtois Performing Artist and Gold Medal winner of the 2019 Royal Overseas League Music Competition, naming him the 2019 ‘Commonwealth Musician of the Year’. From 2016 until 2020 Kris was working as a member of the German Radio Philharmonic, and since 2021 the solo trombonist with the WDR Symphony Orchestra. Kris is also first prize winner of the 2019 Jeju International Music Competition, 2018 International Tenor and Bass Trombone Competition in Budapest, the 2018 International Juozas Pakalnis Competition of Wind and Percussion Instruments in Vilnius and the 2019 International IPV Trombone Competition in Germany. Besides regular concerts with his orchestra, he performs frequently as guest solo trombonist with many of Europe’s leading orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, Bavarian Radio Orchestra and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (to name just a few).