Alan Carr

Bass trombonist Alan Carr is Director of Brass Studies and Assistant Professor of Music at George Mason University. He is also on faculty at the University of Maine at Augusta and New England Music Camp. Previously, he taught at Bates College and Concordia University Wisconsin. Dr. Carr is the bass trombonist in the American Festival Pops Orchestra and has performed with orchestras throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. He has worked with the Alabama, Baltimore, Dubuque, Hartford, and Portland Symphony Orchestras, the Juilliard Orchestra, Ensemble Connect at Carnegie Hall, and the AIMS Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria. As a chamber musician, Dr. Carr has performed and recorded with the American Brass Quintet, Barclay Brass, Isthmus Brass Ensemble, King’s Brass, and Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass. He can be heard on several recordings on the Albany, Naxos, Summit, and Peer 2 record labels. Dr. Carr is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory (BM), The Juilliard School (MM), Yale University (AD), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (DMA), where he was a Paul J. Collins Distinguished Fellow.