David Kosmyna is a native of Toledo, Ohio and Professor of Music at Ohio Northern University, where he teaches trumpet, theory, composition, instrumentation and arranging, brass methods, jazz ensemble methods, jazz history and directs the ONU Jazz Ensemble. Prior to ONU, Kosmyna served on the faculty of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Fredonia and the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts. He holds a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Toledo, a Master of Music in Composition from Ohio University and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Trumpet Performance with a cognate in Wind Band Conducting from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

s a trumpet soloist, Dr. Kosmyna has performed with the Western New York Chamber Orchestra, the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, the Lima Area Concert Band, and has given scores of recitals and solo performances at schools, colleges and universities throughout the Midwest.

He served as Principal Trumpet of the Western New York Chamber Orchestra and has performed with the Toledo Symphony, Toledo Concert Band, Middletown Symphony Orchestra, Kentucky Symphony, the Slee Sinfonietta (Buffalo,NY), the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, including a recording Classics at the Pops! on the TELARC label and broadcasts on National Public Radio.Dr. Kosmyna is a Centaur Records Performing Artist on PITY PAID: Music of Jeffrey Stadelman with the Slee Sinfonietta in 2009 and SHREDS: 21st Century Music for Trumpet and Percussion released 2015.

Dr. Kosmyna is also active as a composer and arranger published by BVD Press and Pasticcio Music. His commissions for trumpet ensembles and brass ensembles have been frequently performed at International Trumpet Guild (ITG) and Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA) conferences, including Dr. Kosmyna performing as soloist with the Mid- American Trumpet Ensemble at the International Trumpet Guild Conference in Sydney, Australia in 2010. Kosmyna’s arrangement of It Don’t Mean A Thing, If It Ain’t Got That Swing (BVD Press) has been widely recorded and performed by brass quintets across the country including the Philadelphia Brass and the New York Philharmonic Brass Quintet.

Dave Kosmyna is a versatile freelance trumpeter, a frequent performer with the Toledo Jazz Orchestra, and including work with the CCM Jazz Orchestra, Vaughn Wiester’s Famous Jazz Orchestra, Ellis Marsalis, Phil DeGreg, Marvin Stamm, John Fedchock, Jiggs Whigham, Arturo Sandoval, Brad Goode, and The Temptations, as well as lead trumpet for scores of shows regionally. He is in-demand as a specialist in Classic and New Orleans Style Jazz. In 2003 he was awarded Best Traditional Classic Jazz Album by the Canadian Collector’s Congress for his work with the Climax Jazz Band of Toronto, Canada. Kosmyna has performed at well over 100 jazz festivals throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and Japan. He has also been a repeat guest soloist, performer, and lecturer at the Toronto Jazz Festival and the Chicago Jazz Festival. Kosmyna has over twenty-five jazz albums to his credit; and his releases with the New Orleans Party Asylum, Crescent City Quartet and his Incendiary Seven have received critical acclaim from Jazz Times, JazzCorner, All About Jazz, and Michael Steinman’s Jazz LIVES.

Dr. Kosmyna is highly committed to music education in the schools and frequently serves as clinician, conductor, and adjudicator on trumpet, brass playing, jazz, and wind band throughout United States including guest conducting the Suffolk County Music Educators’ Association (NY) and the Williams County (OH) Honor Bands and adjudicating the Tarleton State University Jazz Festival in Stephenville, TX. Dr. Kosmyna has also collected decades’ worth of his own pedagogical materials and compiled them on his website www.trumpetdoctor.com; an on-line resource of downloadable Trumpet Tutorials to address challenges for players of all ages and abilities. In 2021, Dr. Dave released the complete recordings of the Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA) Class C Contest List for Solo Trumpet, available on his Trumpet Doctor YouTube channel. Dr. Kosmyna recently presented a clinic Taming Your

Tongue: A backwards approach to proper articulation for brass players at the 2022 OMEA Conference. Dave recently joined the jazz faculty at the New Orleans Traditional Jazz Camp, a two-week intensive located in the heart of the French Quarter in New Orleans, LA