Brad Hogarth, Former Music Director and Conductor

Brad Hogarth joined the Contra Costa Wind Symphony as music director and conductor in August 2015. He brought to the Wind Symphony an uncommon combination of talent and experience as a conductor, performer, educator and arranger. In 2015 he also became the assistant professor of Conducting and Wind Ensemble at San Francisco State University. In addition to conducting and teaching, Hogarth is a professional trumpeter who has performed throughout North America, Europe and Japan as well as locally with the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and other professional ensembles.

Hogarth completed a double major in trumpet performance and music education at the Eastman School of Music and graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with a master’s degree in trumpet performance. His primary conducting teachers have been Mark Davis Scatterday and Brad Lubman, and his principal trumpet teachers have been Mark Inouye, James Thompson, Anthony Plog and Roger Bobo. 

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