Ted attended Interlochen Arts Academy, Arizona State, and earned a Master's Degree in Jazz Composition with Distinction from DePaul University.  He is a well-respected jazz educator with a private teaching studio and leads master classes at various schools and universities throughout the Midwest. He is also on faculty at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana. Ted is a composer who has written compositions and arrangements for middle school jazz ensembles, as well as features for individual performers such as Mark Colby.

He has recorded with many world-class artists including Phil Woods and Slide Hampton and has performed with a wide array of musicians including Joe Lovano, Lennie Niehaus, Buddy DeFranco, Johnny Griffen, Ramsey Lewis, Kevin Mahogany, Alvin Batiste, Mary Wilson and the Supremes, Robbie Folks, Ten Thousand Maniacs, Wayne Newton, and Steven Bernstein.

He has released three recordings as a leader and is on several dozen recordings by various Chicago artists. His recordings as a leader; Ted Hogarth and the Mulligan Mosaics Big Band Live at the Jazz Showcase; Misconception, released under the Italian recording label Wide Sound, and available through Blujazz.com, is a collection of original compositions with his sextet THC; Steps Taken was inspired by his trip to Cuba in 2000 where he studied at Centro Nacional de Escuelas de Arte with Orlando Sanchez and other master Cuban musicians.