David Grasmick, plays trumpet in the Ontario Chaffey Community Show Band.  He is an Emeritus Professor of Music at Cal Poly University, Pomona, and a Nebraska native.  David attended the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where he earned his BA and MM.  He also took postgraduate coursework for the Doctorate of Arts Degree at the University of Northern Colorado and for the DMA degree at Claremont Graduate School.

At Cal Poly he directed the Jazz program and earned computer and multimedia certificates in the Educational Technology program.  David was one of three Cal Poly faculty to successfully teach the first online coursework at Cal Poly and was also given the President's Meritorious Performance Award.

David has performed as principal trumpet with the Lincoln and Omaha Symphonies in Nebraska and the Riverside, San Bernardino, and Redlands Symphonies in California.  His professional chamber music performances have been with the University of Nebraska Faculty Brass Quintet, the Sandusky Brass Trio in Ohio, and the Inland Brass Quintet in California.

David's most influential trumpet teachers have been Dennis Schneider (Univ of Nebraska), John Kendrick (Auburn University), James Stamp (Pedagogist), Bill Pfund (Univ of Northern Colorado), and Bernard Adelstein (Principal Trumpet Cleveland Symphony).

David is married to Mary Grasmick.  They have 5 children, 11 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren.  David attends La Verne Heights Presbyterian church and lives in Claremont.