David Loucky
Trombone
David Loucky has been Principal Trombonist with the New Hampshire Music Festival since 1987. He is Professor of Trombone and Euphonium at Middle Tennessee State University and he performs on all the low brass instruments. From 1998-2000 he served as Assistant Principal Trombonist with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, touring 6 European countries, performing six times in Carnegie Hall, and playing in all the low brass chairs except tuba (Principal, Assistant, Second and Bass Trombone, Euphonium and Bass Trumpet). He has performed and lectured at several International Trombone Festivals and International Tuba-Euphonium Conferences and served on the faculty of the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts. He is Principal Trombonist with the Nashville Opera and Ballet and performs regularly with Nashville Symphony, Stones River Chamber Players, Tri-Star Brass Ensemble and the MTSU Faculty Jazz Ensemble. He regularly performs for diverse recording projects in Nashville, Music City, USA. Loucky earned a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University, a Master of Music from Yale School of Music, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He had additional studies in Cologne, Germany and Vienna, Austria in both classical and jazz traditions. His principal teachers include John Swallow (New York Brass Quintet and NYC Ballet), Ronald Borror (American Brass Quintet and NYC Ballet), William Harris (Syracuse Symphony), Jiggs Whigam (West German Radio Big Band), Horst Küblböck (Vienna Symphony) and Eric Kleinschuster (Austrian Radio Big Band).