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Brad Curran
Curran has studied with Jan Jacobi, Paul Smoker, Allen Butcher, Robert Levy, John Harmon, Bobby Shew, and Clark Terry among others .
Brad is in his 23rd year of teaching instrumental music at Seton Catholic Middle School in Menasha, plays principal trumpet with the Oshkosh Brass Quintet, is a featured jazz soloist with the 18 piece Appleton-based Big Band Reunion and the 16 piece Lighthouse Big Band in Fond du Lac, leads the Jazz Quartet DIG , the Mid-West Coast Jazz Octet, the "Birth of the Cool"Revisited, and leads one of the Green Bay Packers "Tailgaters" bands. His newest venture is Marshall Vente's Mohawk Avenue Jazz Band, comprised of 8 musicians ranging from the Chicago, Milwaukee and (!) Fox Valley area. In addition to free-lance performance, arranging and recording work with a number of midwest bands, he also maintains a busy private teaching studio consisting of anywhere from 12 to 20 students. A huge advocate of jazz education, Brad is a past president of the Wisconsin unit of the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE), a founding member of the new Wisconsin Association for Jazz Education (WI-AJE,) and a charter member of the new Jazz Education Network (JEN).
Available for clinics/workshops, concerts, and as a wedding soloist, Brad Curran also has a limited number of openings for serious trumpet students interested in private study at his studios.
Tags
Primary Instrument
Flugelhorn
Willing to teach
Intermediate to advanced
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson