George Thatcher, trombonist, performs currently as a Hollywood freelance recording and symphonic musician whose career has transversed a wide variety of styles as well as a number of continents.

Since returning to Los Angeles in 1988, Thatcher has recorded for such motion picture luminaries as John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Randy Newman, Thomas Newman and Danny Elfman, on such film as Jurassic Park, Anastasia, Men in Black and the Shawshank Redemtion. He records for television, advertising and records, having performed with such artist as Barbara Streisand, Natalie Cole, Neil Daimond, and Frank Sinatra.
Thatcher's orchestral associations include performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Long Beach Opera, the Los Angeles Opera, Opera Pacific, the Pacific Symphony, and the American Ballet Theater, San Francisco and Kirov ballet companies.
His work abroad includes positions of principal bass trombone with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, principal bass trombone with the National Symphony Orchestra of the S.A.B.C., principal first trombone with the Cape Town Opera Orchestra, and principal bass trombone with the Orchestra Sinfonica Municipal de Caracas.
Thatcher records for Raptoiria Caam Records as a solo artist and as principal bass trombone of the Viklarbo Chamber Symphony. An active symphonic soloist, Thatcher recently performed Maria Newman's Concerto for Bass trombone and Orchestra (Peccavi) with both the Viklarbo Chamber Symphony and the Occidental-Caltech Orchestra in Los Angeles.
He also appeared as soloist with the Eastern Sierra Symphony Orchestra, the Palisades Symphony and the Chamber Orchestra at ST. Matthew's, and has been featured at many well known music festivals nationwide.
On the jazz scene, Thatcher has toured extensively with famed trumpeters Harry James and Al Hirt. While residing in Johannesburg, South Africa he recorded two original solo albums for the S.A.B.C. Thatcher's newest compact disc with jazz ensemble Hailbop ins entitled, Even Call Girls Get the Blues, and will we released in early 1999.