Sean McGhee
is a professional trombonist living in Cincinnati. Originally from Northern Virginia, he first encountered historical performance while attending Indiana University, and continued to study sackbut, viola da gamba and other early topics while getting a masters in modern performance at UC's college conservatory of music. Throughout a varied freelance career of modern orchestral and chamber music, the allure of period instruments has drawn his attention, and he aims to bring thoughtful and exciting historical performances to Ohio. Sean has previously performed with Catacoustic Consort, ProArte Ohio, and The Consort in the Egg. When he is not thinking about the golden age of trombone playing… he might be walking his dog, building an opera set or running in the woods.
Jocelyn Edgar
An avid musician and educator, Jocelyn Edgar has performed and collaborated with a wide variety of groups on both trombone and sackbut. Most recently, she has performed with ProArte Ohio and Lexington Philharmonic. Additionally, Edgar was the 2025 Big 12 tenor trombone solo competition winner, as well as a quartet finalist at the American Trombone Workshop 2025. Having received her BM from University of Oregon and her MM from Indiana University, she is working towards a doctorate at University of Wisconsin-Madison as a Collins Fellowship recipient. Edgar is also active in education. In addition to teaching privately, she is a teaching artist for the Jacobs Virtual Academy, and she is the sackbut TA for the Brass Beyond summer
Katharina Haun
is a cornettist, recorder player, music pedagogue with a great interest in historical research. In concert, she contextualizes early music by presenting it in versatile, approachable, and innovative ways. An innate interest in communicating through music and sharing this passion led Katharina to study music education in the Kunstuniversität Graz. Her yearning for a high musical level on her first instrument, the recorder, was especially nourished during her studies at the Mozarteum Salzburg, and her deep-rooted fascination with historical performance practices and wish to specialize on the cornetto brought her to the right instructors at the Schola Cantorum in Basel (CH). In concert, both as a soloist and in varying chamber music contexts, she enjoys challenging herself and her colleagues to aim for historically informed accuracy without sacrificing musical excellence that touches her audience emotionally and challenges them intellectually.
Adam Bregman
Adam Bregman is a trombonist, musicologist, and pedagogue whose performance, research, and teaching focuses on the late Middle Ages, Ren\aissance, and early Baroque eras. Whether on stage, at workshops, in the classroom, or at conferences, Adam strives to share his love for music of the past and his avid interest in historical performance practices playing historical trombones from every era—as well as sundry other Renaissance wind instruments—presenting his musicological research, and working with musicians of all ages and abilities who share the same passion. His experience has led him to develop an approach to all areas of his musical work that inextricably combines practice and theory—engaging with music on its own terms—and adds insights from other disciplines. All while maintaining the highest level of artistry, he endeavors to instill his fascination with early music in modern audiences. Whether in the form of musical strains or words, he strives to contextualize the music of the past by telling a story so that, through music, we may better understand our cultural history, ourselves, and the world around us.