David Gier
Associate Professor
Trombone
Phone: (319) 335-1655
Office: 2037 VMB
david-gier@uiowa.edu

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David Gier

Trombonist David Gier is currently Associate Professor at the University of Iowa, where he teaches trombone and brass chamber music and performs with the Iowa Brass Quintet. Before moving to Iowa, Gier served for six years on the faculty of Baylor University.

An active soloist, clinician and adjudicator, Gier has performed and presented at numerous colleges, universities, and professional conferences, including the International Trombone Festival, the Eastern Trombone Workshop, the Texas Trombone Symposium, and the Illinois State Trombone Workshop. In the fall of 2002 Gier presented recitals at the University of Kansas and the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and taught trombonists at Yale University and Boston University during a week-long residency.

Gier began his professional career in New England as a member of the Springfield (MA) Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra New England. He was also instructor of trombone and low brass at Choate-Rosemary Hall and Central Connecticut State University, and performed with numerous professional ensembles, including the New Haven and Hartford Symphony Orchestras, the New Orchestra of Westchester, and Keith Brion's Peerless Sousa Band. Gier is currently principal trombonist of the Quad City Symphony and the Cedar Rapids Opera Theater.

As a chamber musician, Gier performed throughout the northeast as a member of the Slide Chamber Players, a trombone quartet. The ensemble was a quarter-finalist in the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and prize-winners in the Shoreline Alliance for the Arts Chamber Music Competition. The SCP actively promoted new music, and premiered works at the Manhattan Brass Symposium, the New York Brass Conference, and the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art.

Gier spends summers with his family on Colorado, where he recently completed his twelfth season as principal trombone of the Breckenridge Festival Orchestra, under the direction of Gerhardt Zimmermann. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Yale University, where he completed the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1992.

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