Biography

Bass Trombonist Gunnery Sergeant Daniel Brady joined “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band in June 2008.

After graduating from Duncanville High School in Dallas, TX in 2005, he studied at Southern Methodist University. His principal teachers include John Kitzman, Joseph Alessi, Michael Mulcahy, and Blair Bollinger. Daniel is frequently a guest musician with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra.

Gunnery Sgt. Brady performs with the Marine Band and Marine Chamber Orchestra at the White House in the Washington D.C. area, as a frequent chamber musician, and across the country during the band’s annual concert tour. Some career highlights include performing for the inauguration of the 44th President Barack Obama in 2008, being a soloist on the Band’s 2012 National Tour, and performing in a trombone octet with colleagues from the Army Field Band at the 2018 International Trombone Festival in Iowa.