Mr. Bollinger has performed recitals and given master classes in Brazil, Chile, China, Holland, Israel, Japan, Poland and throughout the United States. As a student, he won the 1986 Philadelphia Orchestra Senior Student Competition, and remains the only trombonist to win this competition since it began in 1934 as well as the only bass trombone soloist ever with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

His recordings include a solo disc, “Fancy Free”, for d’Note Records, hailed by American Record Guide as “The recording I’ve been waiting for ... an amazing display of Bollinger’s virtuoso skills.” Other recordings are 2 discs with his trombone quartet "Four of a Kind" and a Gabrieli disc with the Canadian Brass. With “Four of a Kind”, Mr. Bollinger has toured Japan and been featured in several trombone conferences.

His arrangements of music for trombone are published by Ensemble Publications in New York and Alphonse Leduc in Paris.

Mr. Bollinger is the Music Director of the Bar Harbor Brass Week in Maine where he conducts, performs and teaches each summer. He is a frequent guest conductor with the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia and leads the Curtis Brass and Percussion Ensemble. Mr. Bollinger also has conducted concerts with his daughter, Robyn, as a violin soloist both in Philadelphia and with the DeKalb (GA) Symphony.

A 1986 graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, he studied with Charles Vernon and Glenn Dodson. Mr. Bollinger is now on faculty at Curtis and Temple University. In addition to teaching private lessons, he conducts and coaches chamber music. He has spent recent summers performing and teaching in the Grand Teton Music Festival in Wyoming and the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina.