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About Brad Edwards.....
Brad Edwards teaches trombone at the
University of South Carolina and currently holds the position of Second
Trombone with the Augusta Symphony. Previously he taught at the University
of Northern Iowa and played principal trombone Waterloo/Cedar Falls
Symphony. He has served with the United States Air Force Concert
Band in Washington D.C., where he was twice featured as a soloist.
Other solo credits include public radio broadcasts, presentations
of new music, guest recitals colleges and regional workshops; and
concertos with orchestras and wind ensembles. Dr. Edwards has
performed with such ensembles as the Charleston Symphony, the Baltimore
Symphony, the brass choir of the National Symphony, the Hartford Symphony,
the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra and the Baltimore Opera Orchestra.
Dr. Edwards has taught at Franklin
and Marshall College in Lancaster Pennsylvania; the Peabody Institute
of Music, the Hartford Conservatory of Music and Trinity College in
Hartford, Connecticut. He has also taught at the South Carolina
Governor's School for the Arts and Kinhaven Music School. Dr. Edwards'
composition Blue Wolf is available from ITA Press and his book
Introductory Studies in Tenor and Alto Clef, "Before Blazhevich"
is available from Ensemble Publications. He has composed fanfares
for the last two International Trombone Weeks (2003 and 2004). These
fanfares are available online from the ITA
website. Dr. Edwards holds degrees from the Peabody Institute
of Johns Hopkins University, the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of
Music and the Hartt School of Music. His primary teachers have
been Henry Schmidt, Ronald Borror, Tony Chipurn and Jim Olin.
He has also studied with Arnold Jacobs, Dave Fedderly and Milt Stevens.
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