Daniel H. Traugh
Daniel H. Traugh, trombone and musical director, is originally from West Virginia, but now calls Kiski, Pennsylvania, home with his lovely wife Sherry.
Dan graduated with a Bachelor and Masters degree from West Virginia University in Music Education. He has been a guest conductor with University of Alabama Invitational Honor Band, West Virginia University Honor Band, West Virginia University Wind Ensemble, and many local and regional Honor Bands; Recipient of the National Band Association – Citation of Excellence, as well as numerous honor designations for his ensemble work. He was inducted into Phi Beta Mu Band Honorary in 1985, is a past member of The American Federation of Musicians, MENC, National Band Association, PMEA , and International Trombone Association. He has been an adjudicator for high school band festivals throughout the Eastern United States, and Pennsylvania Federation of Contest Judges.
He has performed with The Great Big Band, Johnstown Jazz Workshop, Graham Grubb Band, Dusty Rhodes Orchestra, Musician’s Concert Band Big Band, Center Street Jazz, Brass LTD, Plateau Brass Quintet; the rock bands Cold Water Army, Supreme Court, Port Authority; Symphony Orchestra experience includes Charleston Symphony Orchestra, University of Pittsburgh Community Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony; Wind Ensembles including The Musician’s Concert Band, and the Morgantown Winds, West Virginia University Orchestras, Jazz Ensembles, Trombone Ensembles and Wind Ensembles.
Dan was the featured artist for “Trombone Day” at Butler University in Indianapolis and as a clinician in university settings in instrumental pedagogy and trombone. He has worked with noted groups and artists including Jimmy Dorsey Band, the rock group Kansas, Connie Francis, Al Martino, Lou Christie, The Temptations, and The Italian Tenors.
He currently works as an instrumental music specialist for Fox Chapel Area Schools in Pittsburgh, PA, as well as an arranger and clinician and guest conductor. His family includes three musically talented sons; Robert, a music educator and freelance trombonist; Steven a history student at the University of Michigan who is a Tuba and Bass performer; and David, a Bass and Euphonium Jazz studies major attending Youngstown State University.
Dan has studied the folk music of Appalachia, African music, Acoustics and Jazz at the graduate level, and has taught at all education levels from public school thru college. He is the author of the "Instrumental Music Resource Page", one of the earliest instrumental music pedagogy sites on the World Wide Web. Articles from his web site have been featured at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinics and in publications throughout the United States and Europe.
He performs on a Shires .500 bore trombone as well as a Conn 88H trombone using Doug Elliot and Bach mouthpieces. Dan joined the Trinity organization during the Spring of 2006.
