Dave Sear
Biography Dave Sear
Dave Sear
Born in Luton, Dave started playing the trombone at the age of eight. He gained a place at the prestigious Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in 2012 and graduated with a First Class Degree (BMus Hons) in July 2016. He has been a freelance trombonist since, and in January 2021 Dave became an official artist for B.A.C trombones. In the spring of 2022, only six years after graduating, Dave joined the faculty at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire teaching jazz trombone.
Dave is heavily involved with the Birmingham jazz scene and plays regularly with multiple jazz bands. He gigs full time across the UK with a variety of bands including NOLA brass, ska, jazz small bands and jazz big bands. He is more than comfortable in a plethora of styles but feels at home playing jazz.
Dave was delighted to attend the Englesholm Winter Jazz Camp in Denmark in 2015 where he studied with jazz legends such as Dick Oatts, Jeff Ballard and James Genus. During his time at the Birmingham Conservatoire Dave was coached by jazz greats such as Jeff Williams, Mark Turner, John Riley, Elliot Mason, Mark Nightingale and George Colligan and was taught regularly by Jeremy Price, Ashley Horton, Hans Koller and Percy Pursglove.
In recent years, Dave has been lucky enough to perform at many prestigious venues and festivals such as Ronnie Scott's, The Vortex, Glastonbury Festival, Bestival, Shambala, Boomtown, Cork Jazz Festival, Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Birmingham Symphony Hall as well as a number of others.
Dave also made it through to the Top 20 in the 2016 BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year competition.
