Biography

David Ambrosio has been one of New York City’s most respected freelance musicians and educators for over 25 years. As a bandleader, his current projects include CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: Blue Note Records in the Progressive ’60s, featuring Grammy-nominated saxophonist Donny McCaslin and drumming icon Victor Lewis, as well as the David Ambrosio Trio with renowned saxophonist Loren Stillman.

Beyond his own ensembles, David is the co-leader of the David Ambrosio/Russ Meissner Sextet, 40Twenty, and Grupo Los Santos. He is also an integral member of groups such as George Schuller’s Circle Wide, the Matt Renzi Trio, the Eri Yamamoto Trio, and Jazz at Lincoln Center’s BMI/New York Jazz Orchestra led by Ted Nash and Andy Farber. Over the course of his career, he has performed with jazz legends including Kenny Werner, Terry Gibbs, Buddy DeFranco, George Garzone, and Joseph Jarmon.

Ralph Alessi

David’s third recording as leader, Four on the Road (Fresh Sound Records, 2018),was praised as “Swinging brilliance in the light of interactive engagement, creatingmusic that challenges while remaining largely accessible” by Dan Bilawsky of All

About Jazz.

With degrees in classical composition and jazz performance, David has a broad musical palate that has become even more intensified by his extensive travel experiences. In 2001 he had the opportunity to perform in Cuba with Grupo Los Santos, Max Pollack’s Rumbatap, as well as numerous local Afro/Cuban folkloric music and dance ensembles. Not long after, he began what has become an 14-year period of intense study of Afro/Cuban Bata drumming with master drummers

Miguel Bernal, Carlos Gomez, and Carlos Aldama.

David has also frequently toured in Central and South East Asia on behalf of the US State Department as a performer and clinician. Currently he is on the faculty at

Hunter College and the New York Jazz Workshop in NYC.