Wednesday, December 3, 2025 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Brad Wagner and Anthony Fuoco: Hip for the Holidays
Medina County District Library, 210 South Broadway Street, Medina, OH 44256
Ohio Regional Music Arts and Cultural Outreach (ORMACO) and the Medina County District Library present Brad Wagner and Anthony Fuoco on Wednesday, December 3, 2025 from 6:30 pm-7:30 pm at the Medina County District Library, 210 South Broadway Street, Medina, OH 44256. The saxophone and piano duo will be presenting a concert of jazz standards mixed with holiday fare.
The program is free. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. For more information call 419-853-6016.
About the Musicians
Brad Wagner (soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones; flute, alto flute, piccolo, Bb clarinet, and bass clarinet, composer, arranger) received a BM in Jazz Studies from the University of Cincinnati. He is a musician, composer, and arranger for Pulse, the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, Ernie Krivda and the Fat Tuesday Big Band, The Black Dog Octet, Third Law Composers Collective, and has been a member of groups including The Hendectet Jazz Collective, Sam Blakeslee Large Group, Moustache Yourself, Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, Eclipse, Marc Fields Sextet, and more. As a freelance musician, he has performed and recorded with many groups including the Cleveland Orchestra, Akron Symphony, Canton Symphony, Kentucky Symphony, Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Jazz Heritage Orchestra, as well as playing pit orchestras for broadway shows, and backing various entertainers from the jazz, rock, and pop world.
Anthony Fuoco is a lecturer at Baldwin Wallace University where he teaches courses in piano, pedagogy and jazz. As a pianist, Fuoco frequently performs as a member of groups such as the Pulse Quartet (with Brad Wagner, Aidan Plank, and Dustin May), the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and the Wedmedyk/Fuoco duo. He has collaborated with well-known artists such as Joe Lovano, Carmen Castaldi, Jamey Haddad and John Daversa. In 2019, his performance with Joe Lovano at the BopStop was recorded and featured on the NPR program Jazz Night in America. He also has extensive experience performing the classical piano duo repertoire with his wife, Christine Fuoco. Degrees earned are an M.M. in piano performance from the University of Illinois, and a B.M. in piano performance from SUNY Potsdam.