Dr. Joshua Hauser

Joshua Hauser, assistant professor of trombone at Tennessee Technological University, has performed extensively in styles ranging from classical to jazz and rock. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Georgia in May 2000. Dr. Hauser teaches trombone, music theory, aural training, Instrumentation and Orchestration, directs the TTU Trombone Choir, and plays in the Bryan Symphony Orchestra and The Brass Arts Chamber Quintet, the TTU Faculty Brass Quintet in residence.

Dr. Hauser has performed on trombone and euphonium throughout the world, having recently travelled to France and Switzerland to perform at the Vienne and Montreaux jazz festivals. While in Georgia, he was a founding member of the Bulldog Brass Society, a brass quintet lead by former Canadian Brass trumpeter Fred Mills. Travels with this group took him to Narbonne, France, where he was a featured solo artist with the Georgia Brass, and Montevideo, Uruguay, where the quintet did a state sponsored tour of the country and performed as featured soloists with the Filharmonica de Montevideo. He has performed and recorded with numerous classical and jazz artists including the Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble (Marching, Ragging, and Mourning: Brass Band Music of New Orleans, 1900-1920) and Widespread Panic ('Til The Medicine Takes).

Dr. Hauser has several arrangements for brass quintet published through Music Express Publishing in the Encore Brass Series. His doctoral document, a transcription for solo trombone and wind band of Arrows of Time by Richard Peaslee, is available for rental through G. Schirmer and was premiered in March 2000 at the Eastern Trombone Workshop by Joseph Alessi, principal trombonist of the New York Philharmonic, with the U. S. Army Band. A recording of this re-orchestration was made for Summit Records in February 2001 at the College Band Director's National Assocation conference in Denton, TX by Trombonist Scott Hartman and the University of Georgia Wind Symphony.