Maureen Horgan

Is Associate Professor at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, GA. She was a freelance trombonist in Boston for many years where she performed with such diverse groups as the Opera Company of Boston, the Boston Philharmonic, Nashua (NH) Symphony, Capital Brass, and the Jazzabelles. Maureen holds degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music, the Yale School of Music, and SUNY Stony Brook. She has performed at several major international festivals including the International Trombone Workshop, the Eastern Trombone Workshop, and the International Women’s Brass Conference, and has been a Guest Artist at Yale University, the University of New Mexico, and the University of South Carolina, among others. An active proponent of new music, she has commissioned works for trombone and electronics, and trombone quartet, which she will be recording along with other new works in the spring and summer of 2010. Maureen’s teaching credits include public school experience in Massachusetts and Hawaii, Wheelock College, and the New England Conservatory Preparatory School. She has also taught and performed in Honduras, most recently in June 2009 where she was the featured soloist with the Banda de los Supremos Poderes de Honduras.