2017 Featured Artist and Clinician (Sight Reading)
David Steinquest, Professor of Percussion at APSU since 1985, teaches percussion lessons, conducts the Percussion Ensemble and Jazz Combo, and coordinates the Mid-South Jazz Festival.
Steinquest served on the faculties of Albion College, the University of Arkansas, and the National Music Camp at Interlochen, and was a member of the United States Military Academy Band at West Point. He holds a Bachelor of Music Education from Northeast Louisiana University and a Master of Music in Percussion Performance from the University of Michigan.
Steinquest performs with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and records for Row-Loff Productions, Arrangers’ Publishing Company, and the Nashville String Machine. He endorses Majestic and Innovative Percussion.