Brad Hogarth

Brad Hogarth is a versatile and multi-faceted musician, whose career has taken him from the finest concert halls in Europe to the frozen Arctic tundra and the dusty Black Rock Desert. He is especially passionate about musical outreach – both as a performer and as an educator, Brad hopes to bring people and communities together through the power of live performance. 

 Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Brad is the Music Director of the Juneau Symphony, Professor of Conducting at San Francisco State University, the Associate Conductor of the Monterey Symphony, and is the Music Director and Conductor of the Art Haus Collective, known for presenting spectacular performances of classical and contemporary works in unique spaces. Brad is also on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he conducts the Conservatory Wind Ensemble, and the music director of the Peninsula Youth Orchestra.  Brad has recently made appearances as a guest conductor with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Ballet, Marin Symphony, Symphony San Jose, Juneau Symphony, Eastman Wind Ensemble, Eastman Brass Guild, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Band the Bay Brass.

An accomplished trumpeter, Brad performs regularly with a number of orchestras. He can be heard on the SF Symphony’s recording of Charles Ives’s Symphony No. 4 and San Francisco Ballet’s recording of Lowell Liebermann’s Frankenstein. He toured with the Indianapolis Symphony to the Kennedy Center as a part of the 2018 SHIFT Festival, and he has performed as guest principal trumpet with the Louisville Orchestra.

Brad earned a bachelor’s degree in trumpet performance and music education from the Eastman School of Music and a master’s degree in trumpet performance at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he studied with SF Symphony Principal Trumpet Mark Inouye. https://www.bradhogarth.com