Thaddeus Hogarth

Thaddeus Hogarth is a professor in the Guitar Department. A two-time winner of the Independent Music Award for R&B/Blues, he has been a prominent guitar and chromatic harmonica player and singer-songwriter on the New England music scene since graduating from Berklee in 1988. Hogarth and his band, the Thaddeus Hogarth Collective, have shared the bill or stage with such legends as Tower of Power, Ernie Isley, Average White Band, Fred Wesley (James Brown), Bernie Worrell (Parliament-Funkadelic), Matt Schofield, Steve Kimock, The Neville Brothers, Eric Gales, Johnny Winter, and Donald Harrison. He was one of 24 acts selected to represent Bose nationwide for the launch of its live music amplification technology. His collaborations include Grammy Award nominee and reggae legend Sister Carol. Before his solo career, Hogarth was the principal singer-songwriter and guitarist for Boston's own award-winning Heavy Metal Horns (1990–94), known for their heavy-hitting, funk rock grooves and full brass sound.

Hogarth has produced and released five solo CDs and a live concert DVD. He is the author of Funk/R&B Guitar: Creative Solos, Grooves & Sounds and Berklee Chromatic Harmonica Method: Foundations for Jazz for Berklee Press. For Berklee Online, he has authored Funk/Rock and R&B Guitar Soloing, and his Berklee/Coursera course, Guitar for Beginners, has enrollment surpassing 750,000. 

Hogarth's music and voice can be heard worldwide in full-length and independent short feature films and on commercial television, PBS, and MTV. Billboard Magazine describes his music as "soul terra firma," and the Boston Globe called him a "guitar virtuoso."