Dave Steinmeyer

Dave Steinmeyer is one of the music world’s most sought-after jazz trombonists. He spent 28 years as a musician in the United States Air Force, with 24 of those years playing lead trombone with the world-famous Airmen of Note and the last ten years of his tenure as that ensemble’s director. Dave has produced 10 big band jazz albums with the Airmen of Note and is a featured jazz soloist on the album Legacy, recorded after his retirement. Dave currently lives in Jacksonville, Florida where he works as a full-time trombonist and a part-time professor of trombone at the University of North Florida.

He has performed at the Wolf Trap Filene Center, the Kennedy Center, and various other concert halls with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra and with artists ranging from Tony Bennett and Johnny Mathis to Christina Aguilera and Marc Anthony. Dave has performed at the White House for eight Presidents.

Dave is a world-renowned clinician for Leblanc, and appears frequently in high schools, colleges, conventions, and many jazz festivals. Dave is known for his high-range ballad style of playing and his love of working with young musicians.