About
Brad Rogers retired after a 42-year teaching career in July 2021, serving the last 34 years as band director at Oldham County High School in Buckner, Kentucky. Prior to his arrival at OCHS in 1987, he held positions at Oakland High School (Murfreesboro, TN), Central High School (Columbia, TN) and Christian County High School (Hopkinsville, KY). He is a 1978 graduate of Middle Tennessee State University, holds a Masters degree in Music Education (1989) from the University of Louisville, and completed additional graduate coursework through Illinois State University and the Vander Cook School of Music.
Mr. Rogers’ teaching responsibilities at OCHS included directing the marching, concert, and jazz bands, and assisting with the OCMS band program. The OCHS band program under his direction performed with distinction in a wide variety of venues, consistently earning Distinguished and Superior ratings at events in Kentucky, across the eastern United States and in Canada. The OCHS Symphonic Band performed as a featured ensemble at the KMEA In-Service Conference (2006, 2010, 2014, and 2018) and was selected to perform there again in 2022. Chamber ensembles from the OCHS band program presented performances in 2013, 2014, and 2021. Symphonic Band I and II served as clinic demonstration ensembles at the Conference on three separate occasions with presenters such as Mr. Edward Lisk and composer Stephen Melillo.
Mr. Rogers has received numerous individual recognitions, notably the MTSU Band of Blue Hall of Fame (inducted 1999), OCHS Teacher of the Year (1991), the National Band Association Citation for Musical Excellence (three times), and the Phi Beta Mu Outstanding Bandmaster in Kentucky (2012). He has been honored as one of 50 Directors Who Make A Difference by SBO Magazine (2015), is a John Philip Sousa Society Legion Laureate, and a Rotary Club International Paul Harris Fellow. He has served on the KMEA Executive Committee, 5th District representative to the Marching Band Council, KMEA Strategic Planning Committee, and as the KMEA State Band Division chair (2008-2010). He served as President of KMEA from 2015-2017 and completed two-year terms as the Vice President and Past President of the association in 2021. He was honored as KMEA’s High School Teacher of the Year (2017). His articles on bands, adjudication, band directing, and the “band experience” for students have been published in the Bluegrass Music News and other state music education association publications, the NBA Journal, and SBO Magazine. In April 2019 he was recognized as a Distinguished Alumnus of the Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) School of Music. He was recently inducted into the Oldham County High School Hall of Fame Class of 2021.
Professional affiliations include KMEA/NAfME, National Band Association, American School Band Directors Association, Phi Beta Mu, Phi Delta Kappa, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. He has been a staff member with the Kentucky Ambassadors of Music/Kentucky Musicians Abroad (2000-present), is active as a clinician, adjudicator, and private instructor (clarinet), and performs with the Louisville Concert Band/Chamber Winds Louisville (Dr. Frederick Speck, conductor), Louisville Winds (Nanette Moore, conductor) and the Swing Street Big Band. Mr. Rogers has also been the conductor of the Oldham County Community Band since 1989. He has two grown daughters, Brianna and Lauren (both OCHS and MTSU alumni), and resides in La Grange, Kentucky with his wife, Patricia.