Bridget Conley is the recently appointed principal tuba player of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. She has performed with ensembles including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Florida Orchestra, Britt Festival Orchestra, and Seraph Brass, among others. She was formerly a fellow with the New World Symphony, and was awarded the New World Symphony’s Judith Rodin Fellowship for an Outstanding Woman Musician.

As a soloist, Bridget was the winner of the 2021 Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Solo Artist Competition. She was also a finalist in both the 2022 and 2023 Yale School of Music Concerto Competitions, and was the winner of the 2020 Vanderbilt Wind Symphony Concerto Competition.
In addition to her experience as a performer, Bridget is also the co-founder of Sisters in Sound, an online platform that provides free access to professionally engraved arrangements and recordings of works by early women composers for brass ensembles. Bridget founded Sisters in Sound in 2023 with Abby Black, Principal Horn of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, with the goal of expanding the repertoire of brass arrangements to include works by women composers who were actively influencing the musical landscape of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Bridget holds a Master of Music Degree in Performance from the Yale School of Music, where she studied with Carol Jantsch of the Philadelphia Orchestra and was the recipient of the Dean’s Prize. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Tuba Performance with a minor in Brass Pedagogy from Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, where she studied with Gil Long and was a Lanier Leadership Scholar. In the fall of 2019, she spent a semester studying at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with Perry Hoogendijk, principal tubist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Bridget has also served on various councils and committees, including the Yale School of Music Student Advisory Council, Vanderbilt Blair Student Council, and Vanderbilt University COVID-19 Response Committee.

Bridget is a native of Charleston, South Carolina. When she’s not playing tuba, Bridget loves cooking, exercising, and a good book.