Joshua L. Bynum  currently serves as Instructor of Trombone and Low Brass at Ouachita Baptist University and is a member of the Pine Bluff Symphony Orchestra.  He enjoys an active performance schedule balancing roles as soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral trombonist.

 He is a graduate of Jacksonville State University and Temple University. As a recipient of the prestigious Iowa Performance Fellowship, Bynum has finished all of the required coursework for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Iowa.  He is currently finishing his DMA Essay which analyzes the fundamentals of superior orchestral trombone section performance. 

While at the University of Iowa, Josh served as trombone teaching  assistant from 2003-2005.  He has also served as low brass instructor on the faculties of Grinnell College, the University of Pennsylvania,  the Cedar Rapids Symphony School, and the Wilmington Music School.

Recently, Josh has performed with both the Arkansas and Shreveport Symphonies. He has held positions with the Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Tuscaloosa, and Gadsden Symphony Orchestras, was an Associate Member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and has also performed with groups such as the Joffrey Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Bay Atlantic and Haverford Symphony Orchestras. Bynum has performed with numerous artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Elmar Oliveira, William Preucil, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Robert Browning, Sir James Galway, and Henry Charles Smith.

In addition to numerous solo recitals given across the United States, Josh has performed in front of  the  Eastern Iowa Brass Band, the Jacksonville State University Chamber Wind Ensemble, and the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band. Mr. Bynum was invited as a solo artist to the Northeast Alabama Trombone Festival in both 2002 and 2003. He was selected to participate in the 2007 Alessi Seminar, where  received individual and ensemble instruction from Joseph Alessi, principal trombonist of the New York Philharmonic.

His primary teachers include Dr. David Gier, George Krem, Nitzan Haroz, David Perkel, and Dr. Jim Roberts.  He has performed in master classes for Matthew Vaughan, Larry Zalkind, and James Miller, and received regular instruction from members of the Philadelphia Orchestra low brass section both past and present.

Please visit the OBU Low Brass Studio Website.