Biography                                                                                

Scott Hagarty is a versatile trumpet player, feeling equally at home performing any style of music from classical to jazz to early music. Originally from Iowa (where he did not grow up on a farm!), Scott earned a Bachelor of Music in music education with a jazz studies minor at the University of Northern Iowa.  While there he performed with many local and regional ensembles including the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra as 3rd trumpet, and subbing with the Cedar Rapids Symphony and Theatre Cedar Rapids pit orchestra.  He immediately went on to graduate school leaving the tiny metropolis of Cedar Falls, Iowa and headed to the bustling East Coast, where he earned a Masters degree in trumpet performance from Yale University. While at Yale, he was exposed to high quality music making and gained valuable experiences freelancing, including a performance with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra/Russian Philharmonia in Carnegie Hall. 

Scott then made his way back to the midwest.  He completed work on his Doctorate of Musical Arts in trumpet performance with a secondary area in music theory at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in December of 2007.  Dr. Hagarty's thesis topic was the Repertoire of the New York Brass Quintet.  His past teachers and coaches include: Gary Bordner, Allan Dean, Dr. David Baldwin, Tom Ashworth, Toby Hanks, Scott Hartman, and Dr. Randy Grabowski. 

The high level of interest in the arts in Minneapolis has afforded Scott the opportunity to perform with a wide variety of ensembles.  In addition to playing with the Aurora Brass Quintet as a regular member, Scott is on the sublist with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre.  He has also performed with many area symphonies such as the Mankato Symphony, Rochester Symphony and the Metropolitan Symphony.  In addition to the trumpet, Scott has also studied the cornetto (a renaissance period instrument) with Allan Dean at Yale, and has performed with the Yale Cornetto and Sackbut Ensemble; and in Minnesota, with the Gregorian Singers, the Schubert Club, the University of Minnesota Early Music Ensemble and most recently with Consortium Carissimi.

Scott lives with his beautiful and intelligent wife, and when he isn't making music or teaching music, he enjoys watching movies, playing golf, board games, and playing online poker.