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Bradley Detrick grew up in a musical family in Lima, Ohio. He began his musical training at the age of 8, studying piano with Carolyn Hurless, and later Don Hurless, who was to become a life-long mentor in improvisation, arranging, and composing. Taking up the trumpet with the school band program at age 11, he was soon writing compositions for jazz ensemble, marching band, and other school ensembles, while playing percussion professionally under the tutelage of his father Dale Detrick. Receiving his Bachelor of Music degree at Bowling Green State University, he studied composition with Marilyn Shrude, Burton Beerman, and Donald Wilson, while also writing extensively for the improvisation ensemble Black Earth Rhythm Emporium. At the University of Miami, while receiving his Master of Music degree, he studied jazz composition with Ron Miller and was particularly influenced in the area of modal harmony. After more than three years of constant touring with the Glenn Miller Orchestra as trumpet soloist and arranger, he moved to NYC where he was soon performing and recording his compositions with the mystic pilgrims jazz quintet. The 2004 Merkin Hall production of Prophecies, Detrick's oratorio for narrator, 5 soloists, choir, and percussion ensemble, marked a new compositional direction in exploring vocal music. Detrick's first operatic offering, The Yellow Star, was premiered in concert version on February 13, 2008 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in NYC. A second production of The Yellow Star took place on October 28, 2008, at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY. | |
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