Biography
Conductor
Brad Hogarth
Brad Hogarth is a versatile and multifaceted musician whose career has taken him from European concert halls 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—and he hopes to bring people and communities together through the power of live performance.
Based in the Bay Area, Mr. Hogarth is associate professor of conducting at San Francisco State University, associate conductor of the Monterey Symphony, as well as music director and conductor of the Art Haus Collective, known for presenting classical works in unique spaces. He is also music director and conductor of the San Francisco Civic Symphony and on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he conducts the Conservatory Wind Ensemble. This season he makes his conducting debut with the Dallas Symphony and he has recently conducted the Monterey Symphony, Eastman Wind Ensemble, Eastman Brass Guild, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Bay Brass, and was on the conducting staff of the 2022 National Brass Ensemble. He made his San Francisco Symphony conducting debut at the Best in Brass concert in March 2022.
An accomplished trumpeter, Mr. Hogarth 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.
Mr. Hogarth 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.
Based in the Bay Area, Mr. Hogarth is associate professor of conducting at San Francisco State University, associate conductor of the Monterey Symphony, as well as music director and conductor of the Art Haus Collective, known for presenting classical works in unique spaces. He is also music director and conductor of the San Francisco Civic Symphony and on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he conducts the Conservatory Wind Ensemble. This season he makes his conducting debut with the Dallas Symphony and he has recently conducted the Monterey Symphony, Eastman Wind Ensemble, Eastman Brass Guild, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Bay Brass, and was on the conducting staff of the 2022 National Brass Ensemble. He made his San Francisco Symphony conducting debut at the Best in Brass concert in March 2022.
An accomplished trumpeter, Mr. Hogarth 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.
Mr. Hogarth 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.
