Kevin Hartman
- Professor Emeritus, Trumpet
Education
MM, Trumpet Performance, Northwestern University
BM, Trumpet Performance, UW-Whitewater
Biography
Kevin Hartman served as Interim Dean of the College of the Arts and Architecture in 2024-25, as Interim Dean and Head of School in the Peck School of the Arts, as Chair of Department of Music, and as Professor of Trumpet for over 20 years at UW-Milwaukee. He maintained an active performance schedule in addition to his administrative and teaching duties. He performed frequently with the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and has played on hundreds of concerts, recordings, and tours with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, including two Grammy winning recordings. Dean Hartman has worked for many of the world’s great conductors, including Georg Solti, Pierre Boulez, Bernard Haitink, Daniel Barenboim, Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Tilson Thomas, Charles Dutoit, Andrew Davis, and many others. He served as Principal Trumpet with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, the Ravinia Festival Orchestra, the Lancaster Festival Orchestra, and served as Assistant Principal Trumpet with the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra. He performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, was a member of the Fulcrum Point New Music Project, and was a member of the Chicago Brass Quintet. He is a founding member of the Asbury Brass Quintet, winners of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the Coleman Chamber Music Competition. On the commercial side, Dean Hartman has spent countless hours in the theater pits of Chicago during runs of Billy Elliot, Mary Poppins, Showboat, Beauty and the Beast, Miss Saigon, West Side Story, and My Fair Lady, and has performed with Doc Severinsen, Arturo Sandoval, Celine Dion, Peter Cetera, The Who, Pete Townshend, Eddie Vedder, Billy Idol, Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli, Enrique Eglasias, Dennis DeYoung, Yes, the Temptations, the Manhattan Transfer, Emmylou Harris, Lou Rawls, and many others.