Bradley Kerns

Lecturer of Trombone

 

Degrees:
B.M.E. University of Kentucky
M.M. Boston University

Phone number: 859-257-4484
E-mail: bradley.kerns@uky.edu

Bradley Kerns recently joined the faculty at the University of Kentucky in the spring of 2011. He maintains a versatile performing and teaching schedule and is a Grammy nominated recording artist.

As a performer, Brad has appeared with an extensive variety of musical groups such as the Temptations, the Synergy Brass Quintet, the Momus and New England Trombone Quartets, the Piedmont Trombone Society, the New England and Lexington Brass Bands, the Broadway touring production of Chicago, and ALEA III New Music Ensemble to name a few.  He currently can be heard as split lead/solo trombone in the DiMartino/Osland Jazz Orchestra and the Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra, as well as trombonist in the nationally based Brass Initiative Ensemble.

As an educator, Brad has taught trombone at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Asbury University, and the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts.  He has also served as Director of Bands within the Catholic Diocese of Lexington. 

Brad has been involved in nearly twenty recording projects including his recently released solo recording, Rising Sun, which is largely a collection of new arrangements, transcriptions, and contemporary works for trombone.  He can also be heard on the Momus Trombone Quartets debut album, The Lexingport Project, which remains one of the top selling trombone quartet albums in the world.

Brad received a Bachelor of Music Education Degree from the University of Kentucky while studying with Dale Warren and a Master of Music Degree from Boston University while studying with Scott Hartman. 

He currently resides in Nicholasville, KY with his wife, Katie, their two sons, Charley and Simon, and an overly energetic Australian Shepherd, Sydney.