Andrew
Harms

Full biography

Dr. Andrew Harms is a trumpeter, educator, and scholar whose work spans the concert stage, the university studio, and the published page. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music and Coordinator of High Brass at the University of Maine–Orono, and holds positions as 2nd Trumpet with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and Bangor Symphony Orchestra.

Dr. Harms has performed with orchestras and ensembles across the country, including the Portland Symphony Orchestra, Lexington Symphony, East Connecticut Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Cape Symphony, Atlantic Symphony, Kentucky Symphony, Austin Symphony, and Miami Symphony. He serves as Principal Trumpeter of Opera North, and has performed frequently with Sound Icon, the Boston-based contemporary ensemble.

A dedicated champion of new music, Dr. Harms has premiered and commissioned works by Whitney George, Nathaniel Pawalek, Paul Poston, Annika Socolofsky, Jonathan Newark, and Daniel Harrison, among others. His arrangement of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor for trumpet and piano is published by Eighth Note Publications. His recordings as solo trumpet appear on Undreamed Shores: The Music of Ewazen, Snow, and Cheetham and on The Music of New England, both widely distributed.

As a scholar, Dr. Harms has published in the Journal of the International Trumpet Guild, with articles including “The Hard Work Narrative” and “DataFrame.Trumpet.” He is a prizewinner in the WAMSO Young Artist Competition of the Minnesota Orchestra, the International Trumpet Guild Solo Competition, and the National Trumpet Competition. His pedagogical publications — the 4-Week Arban Flow Routine, Operation Canopy, and Orchestral Melodies — are available through his studio and have reached students across multiple continents.

Dr. Harms received his Doctor of Musical Arts in Trumpet Performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, with a cognate in German Studies. His principal teachers include David Bilger, Micah Wilkinson, Tom Hooten, Anthony Plog, Alan Siebert, Phil Collins, Keith Benjamin, and Grant Peters. He is a Performing Artist for Schagerl Trumpets.