Stuart Dempster

Trombonist Stuart Dempster was born in 1936, and is a native of Berkeley, CA. He studied his instrument at San Francisco State College (receiving a B.A. in performance and an M.A. in composition), and during the early to mid-'60s was the principal trombone with the Oakland Symphony under Gerhard Samuel, as well as a member of the Performing Group at Mills College, plus a music teacher (at both the San Francisco Conservatory and at California State College at Hayward). Throughout the remainder of the '60s and the '70s, Dempster taught at a variety of colleges, including the U...