Scott Hartman is one of the preeminent trombonists of today, performing throughout the USA, Europe, and Asia as a soloist and chamber musician. Hartman is presently a member of the Yale Brass Trio, Proteus7, the Summit Brass, the Millennium Brass, the Brass Band of Battle Creek, and the trombone quartet Four of a Kind. He began his chamber music career as a member of the famed Empire Brass. You can hear recordings of these groups on the Telarc, Angel / EMI, Sony Classical, Dorian, Summit Brass, and Leaping Frog labels. As a chamber musician, Hartman has performed in all 50 of the United States. He has been a featured performer with many major USA symphony orchestras — including the Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Philadelphia Symphony, Detroit Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, and many more. Abroad, Hartman has been a soloist with the BBC Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Caracas Symphony, the Simón Bolivar Symphony, Bursa State Symphony Orchestra (Turkey), the National Symphony of Taiwan, the Daejeon Philharmonic (South Korea), and the Korean Orchestra (Seoul, South Korea).

Hartman heads the trombone department at Yale University. Each summer, Hartman performs and coaches brass chamber music at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Raphael Mendez Brass Institute, and the Chautauqua Music Festival.