Dave Sterner has been part of the Ohio music scene as a musician and educator since the early 1990s. Mr. Sterner is a 1992 graduate of Indiana University’s Jazz Studies program, where he studied under renowned jazz educator David Baker. In 1993, after a stint in New York, Mr. Sterner returned to Ohio to focus on a career in performance and education. As a member of the Fat Tuesday Big Band, Sterner has performed with such nationally-known jazz artist as David Sanborn, Phil Woods, Louis Bellson, David “Fathead” Newman, Buddy DeFranco, and Terry Gibbs among others. As a free-lance musician, Sterner has also performed with Tony Bennett, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, Harry Connick Jr., Donny Osmond, The Manhattan Transfer, Bobby Caldwell, Frankie Valli, Steve and Eadie, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, The Four Tops, Tony Tennille, Ben Vereen, Olivia Newton John, Wayne Newton to name a few. In 2006, the Dave Sterner Quintet released the self-produced CD What’s What, which includes eight original pieces and reinterpretations of four classics. In 2007 the quintet won the “Best Jazz Band” music award from the Cleveland Free Times Magazine. Other groups Sterner has recorded with include the N. Glenn Davis Quartet, (A Different View, Jazzed Media) and the N. Glenn Davis Quintet featuring Phil Woods for release in 2009.He is currently a part-time faculty member for the Cuyahoga Community College jazz studies program teaching advanced ear training, harmony and music seminar, in addition to directing the Lakeland Community College Civic Jazz Orchestra. Other events that he is involved with include Artworks master teacher, co-director for the Lakeland Jazz Festival and as a clinician and adjudicator for the Lakeland and TRI-C Jazz Festivals.
Listed skills include Music, Band, Jazz, Music Education, and 29 others.
