BERNHARD SCULLY has been very busy these past two years.  He is the newly appointed, and currently the youngest member of the world renowned Canadian Brass.    With this famous ensemble he has already performed in sixteen countries, on three separate continents, and has recorded two CD’s as well as a music video which topped the “Top Ten” on Canada’s Bravo Music Video Countdown.  He has performed in many of the world’s finest concert halls, which have included performances with some of the world’s greatest symphony orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic Brass Section, Philadelphia Orchestra Brass Section, Detroit Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, and many others.  He has given master-classes all over the world to thousands of students, is on faculty at the Music Academy of the West, and at the Eastman Music School Summer Brass Quintet Seminar.

Growing up in Georgia and Minnesota, Bernhard comes from a family of musicians.  Both his parents are pianists which logically led him to choose the horn!  In Valdosta GA, he studied with David Mills and Mark Belcik on horn.  He moved to Minnesota after his sophomore year of high school where he studied with Kendall Betts.  He played principal horn in the Greater Twin Cities’ Youth Symphony, winning the orchestra’s concerto competition with Richard Strauss’ Second Horn Concerto his senior year.

Upon graduation, Bernhard entered Northwestern University where he earned his undergraduate degree with honors studying with Gail Williams and Roland Pandolfi.  He received his masters degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he was a Paul Collins Distinguished Fellow. He studied with Douglas Hill in Madison and Hermann Baumann in Germany.  In Madison, he won the student concerto competition with Rheinhold Gliere’s Concerto for Horn in B-flat, and performed as a member of the Madison Symphony and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra.  He also was a founding member of the Contrapunctus Brass Trio, which recently received a grant to perform and educate in many under-funded music programs across Wisconsin.

Prior to joining the Canadian Brass, Bernhard performed for three seasons as a regular substitute and extra musician with the Minnesota Orchestra where he was heard on many of their weekly national broadcasts.  He has received awards from the WAMSO Competition of the Minnesota Orchestra, The National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts (finalist 1995), The Evergreen Society of Minnesota, The Schubert Club, and many others.  In 2004, Bernhard was the only American invited to participate in the Geneva International Horn Competition.  He has participated in many summer music festivals, performs often as a soloist, and enjoys composing and improvising music as well.

Bernhard is married to Sarah Scully, a music therapist.  They reside in Rochester NY, where they enjoy exercising, cooking, being involved in their church, and playing with their cat Sibelius.  Life will change dramatically for them very soon as they are expecting their first child in April! 

Bernhard has been an integral part of KBHC since the inception serving at first on the staff and later joining the faculty.  It will be a great pleasure to welcome him back for both weeks in 2007!