Frank Kaderabek is the former principal trumpet of the Philadelphia Orchestra and former trumpet instructor of the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. Born in Chicago, he studied with Edward Masacek and Adolph Herseth and moved to New York to study with Harry Glantz and Nathan Prager. He was assistant/third trumpet with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and principal with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra before joining the Philadelphia Orchestra under chief conductor Eugene Ormandy. Many of his students from Curtis now play in major orchestras.
Frank remains on the faculty at West Chester University[1] where he serves as an adjunct faculty member. While there Frank gives all of his students one hour lessons every two weeks instead of half hour lessons every week saying that "You cannot accomplish anything worthwhile in only half an hour.....by that time you have only just said 'hello'". Frank did a clinic at the First Annual West Chester University Trumpet Fest on the Fundamentals of Trumpet Playing. Frank also participated in the Claude Gordon International Brass Workshops from 1984 until the final one in 1993.