Mike Steinel

Mike is a jazz trumpeter, pianist, composer and arranger. Presently serving as Associate Professor of Jazz Studies at the University of North Texas, he has also been a member of the jazz faculties at Northern Illinois University, the Clark Terry Jazz Camp, the Jamey Aebersold Improvisation Workshop, the Saskatchewan Summer Jazz Camp, the Bethel College Music Camp, and others too numerous to name here.

Mike has also performed and/or recorded with Clark Terry, Don Ellis, Bill Evans, the Chicago Jazz Quintet, the Frank Mantooth Big Band, and many more. In 1985 he was awarded an Illinois Arts Council Grant, and in 1993 he served as co-chair of the Jazz Advisory Panel for the National Endowment for the Arts.

Mike plays Yamaha trumpets and flugelhorns.