2027 Guest Conductor of the Honors Percussion Ensemble
2017 Featured Artist and Clinician (Sight Reading)
David Steinquest served as Professor of Percussion in the Music Department at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, for thirty-nine years, from 1985-2024. He taught all individual percussion lessons, conducted the Percussion Ensemble, started the Jazz Combo, and coordinated the Mid-South Jazz Festival. David previously served as a faculty member at Albion College in Michigan, the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, and the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan. He was a member of the United States Military Academy Band at West Point from 1982-1985. David holds a Bachelor of Music Education from Northeast Louisiana University and a Master of Music in Percussion Performance from the University of Michigan.
David performs frequently with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, including their two Carnegie Hall concerts and on twenty-five of the NSO’s commercial recordings, five of which won GRAMMY awards and four others that received GRAMMY nominations. He served as Acting Assistant Principal Percussionist for the 2005-2006 season. David records often for Row-Loff Productions, Nashville Music Scoring, Arrangers’ Publishing Company, and The Nashville String Machine. He has numerous compositions and arrangements published by Row-Loff Productions, Studio 4 Music, Pioneer Percussion, and Living Sound Publications. David is an endorser of Pearl/Adams percussion instruments and Innovative Percussion sticks and mallets.
David and his wife, Allison Steinquest, have made their home in Springfield, Tennessee. They have a dog, Buddy, and a cat, Whisper, that do not get along…