Search - Brad Edwards (trombone), Tina Milhorn Stallard (soprano), Scott Herring (marimba) :: Trombone And...: Concert Duets with Voice, Marimba, Horn, Saxophone and Trumpet

With a style that has been variously described as passionate, vigorous and even humorous, Brad Edwards has appeared as a soloist before audiences around the country. 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 was a featured soloist and recitalist with the United States Army Band at the Eastern Trombone Workshop in Washington D.C. As a member of the United States Air Force Concert Band there, he was twice featured as a soloist. Edwards has performed with the Baltimore Symphony, Hartford Symphony, Charleston Symphony, Charlotte Symphony Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra, Baltimore Opera Orchestra, the brass choir of the National Symphony, and the 2011 Cabrillo Festival Orchestra. As a composer, he has published Blue Wolf, Four Impromptus for Low Bone Alone, and Five American Folk Song Sketches (featured on this recording) for horn and trombone duet. He has also published a number of books, including Introductory Studies in Tenor and Alto Clef and Lip Slurs [Ensemble Publications] and Lip Slur Melodies, Simply Singing for Winds and the Trombone Craft series [self-published]. Edwards teaches trombone at the University of South Carolina and is currently Principal Trombonist of Symphony Orchestra Augusta and the South Carolina Philharmonic. Previously, he taught at the University of Northern Iowa and played principal trombone in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony. Edwards holds degrees from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Cincinnati College- Conservatory of Music and Hartt School of Music. His primary teachers have included Jim Olin, Tony Chipurn, Ronald Borror and Henry Schmidt, and has also studied with Arnold Jacobs, Dave Fedderly and Milt Stevens. He has shared the stage with such diverse artists as Ray Charles, Dave Brubeck, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Olivia Newton John, Wynona Judd, the Gatlin Brothers, Robert Merrill, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Roger Daltry.