Thaddeus Hogarth

Born in the U.K. and raised in the West Indies, 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. He leads the Thaddeus Hogarth Collective. 

Hogarth and his band have shared the bill or stage with such legends as Tower of Power, Average White Band, Fred Wesley, Bernie Worrell, and Ernie Isley, among many others. He was one of 24 acts selected to represent Bose nationwide for the launch of their 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 the 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 500,000. 

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."