Trombone Faculty
Scott Hartman
SCOTT HARTMAN is Instructor of Trombone at the Yale University School of Music. His performing career has been primarily as a chamber musician and soloist. Beginning his chamber music career as a member of the Empire Brass, he has also performed and recorded with numerous ensembles including Proteus7, Millennium Brass, the Brass Band of Battle Creek, the Yale Brass Trio and Four of a Kind. Mr. Hartman is a frequent guest clinician and teacher throughout the world, and often performs as a soloist with piano and large ensembles.
Megumi Kanda
MEGUMI KANDA, Principal Trombone of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra since 2002, is an internationally acclaimed performer, teacher, and author. Megumi has performed as a soloist across the United States, Europe, and Asia, including with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Pershing’s Own Army Band, the US Army Field Band, and the Prague Chamber Orchestra. She has been a featured guest artist at many trombone workshops and festivals, including the International Trombone Festival and the American Trombone Workshop. Megumi has appeared as guest faculty at numerous music institutions, including the New World Symphony, National Youth Orchestra of the USA, and Interlochen Arts Academy, and has given masterclasses and recitals across the US, Europe, and Asia. In April 2006, Megumi was recognized by the Arion Foundation in Tokyo, Japan as one of the most influential Japanese classical artists. She has also received a Certificate of Commendation from the Consul General of Japan at Chicago in recognition for distinguished service contributing to the friendship between the United States and Japan. Megumi was named a 2017 Woman of Influence in the category of education by the Milwaukee Business Journal. In 2020, she was named the recipient of the International Trombone Association Award, which recognizes the highest level of creative and artistic output. Megumi’s first book, The One Hundred, a collection of orchestral trombone excerpts with accompanying commentary, was published in August 2015 and is a resource widely used by aspiring young trombonists around the world. Her second book, Trombone Unlimited, a comprehensive method book, was published in 2020. As a JVC/Victor Entertainment artist, Megumi recorded three solo albums: Amazing Grace, Gloria, and Mona Lisa. She also can be heard on Magnifique Live, a live recording of Megumi and other JVC artists in the August 2005 performance at Takemitsu Hall in Tokyo’s Opera City. Megumi is proud to be a Greenhoe performing artist.
Brad Edwards
BRAD EDWARDS is Professor at Arizona State University, formerly serving as member of the US Air Force Band and faculty at the University of South Carolina and University of Northern Iowa. With a style that has been described as “passionate,” “fiercely vigorous,” and even “humorous,” Brad Edwards has appeared as a soloist before audiences in the United States and Europe. His solo credits include radio and television broadcasts, premieres of new music, guest recitals at colleges and regional workshops, and concertos with student and professional orchestras and wind ensembles. He has been featured as a soloist with the “Pershing’s Own” Army Band and the Air Force Concert Band. Dr. Edwards is well known for his pedagogical books, which have sold over 40,000 copies.
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Richard Harris
RICHARD HARRIS Whether its performing on OSCAR winning soundtracks such as “Joker” the GRAMMY award winning album “Twelve Little Spells” with Esperanza Spalding, or recording solo and chamber music CD’s, Richard Harris has crafted an eclectic musical career. As a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral performer, educator and advocate, his performances have taken him all across North & South America, Europe and Asia.
Richard is currently on faculty at the University of Denver, is the former Assistant Principal Trombone of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and formerly an Associate member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He is a regular guest with many of the US’s top symphony orchestras, including the Boston Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic and is a former member of the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra in New York City, where he has also performed with many other Broadway productions.
Richard recorded with pop-star Sting on his first studio album in a decade and has performed and toured alongside a diverse range of musicians, such as, Rza, Puff Daddy, Snoop Dogg, Vince Mendoza, Natalie Cole, Seth McFarlane, Boyz II Men, Megan Hilty, Roseanne Cash, Bryce Dessner, Chris Botti and classical music stars Luciano Pavarotti and Andrea Bocelli.
Mr. Harris is a member of ‘Decoda’, a New York City based chamber music collective which is the first ever Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall and he is also a member of Summit Brass. As a chamber musician he has been a guest artist at Chamber Music North West and has performed with The Canadian Brass, The Empire Brass, The Metropolitan Opera Brass Ensemble, The Lincoln Center Trombone Ensemble, the Boston based string ensemble, A Far Cry and he appeared on onstage at the Park Armoury in New York with the Knights Chamber Orchestra in “The Head & The Load” directed by William Kentridge.
A native of Worcestershire, England, Richard was a scholarship student at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He completed his Masters Degree at Indiana University before spending three seasons with the New World Symphony Orchestra led by Artistic Director Michael Tilson Thomas. Mr. Harris is a former fellow of Ensemble ACJW, a program of Carnegie Hall & The Juilliard School and Richard has worked for Carnegie Hall as a teaching artist.
Bass Trombone
John Lofton
JOHN LOFTON is the bass trombonist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He formerly served as bass trombonist with the State Orchestra of Mexico, the Honolulu Symphony, and the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra. Lofton was appointed bass trombonist of Los Angeles Philharmonic in August 2008. He has toured and recorded with the Cleveland Orchestra and performed with the San Francisco Symphony. In addition to appearing on several recordings, Lofton has produced both solo and chamber recordings.