bio
David Smith is a sought-after trumpet player based in New York City. He has released three albums featuring his original compositions for Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records and Fresh Sound New Talent (Impetus, Anticipation and Circumstance) and has appeared as a sideman on over sixty recordings, including on the 2020 Grammy-winning album Four Questions from Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Alan Ferber’s Grammy-nominated March Sublime and other albums, with Harry Connick, Jr., Glen Hansard, Jon Gordon, Manuel Valera, Tom Jones and many others. Live performances include with Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra under the direction of Carla Bley, The Who, Glen Hansard and Alan Ferber's Big Band and Nonet.
David has a Master of Arts Degree in Jazz Performance from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College in New York, and is Artist Teacher in trumpet at the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz at the Hartt School, University of Hartford. Additionally he has been faculty at the Meet the Masters Summer Jazz Workshop, Maine Jazz Camp and Taipei International Summer Jazz Academy and maintains a private trumpet studio. In 2015 his composition "Halloween Song" was awarded third prize in the jazz category of the International Songwriting Competition.