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 improvisational 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  full-time touring with the Glenn Miller Orchestras as trumpet soloist and  arranger, he moved to New York City 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 2008 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the  Holocaust in NYC. Because of it's tremendous success, it was produced a second  time in concert form at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY, also in  2008.

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