Sponsor: G. Burnette Dillon & Louise Di Tullio Dillon

Dave Bender is a freelance trumpet player living in Eugene, Oregon. Dave performs
regularly with the Eugene Symphony, the Girl Circus Orchestra, the Oregon Mozart
Players, the Fighting Instruments of Karma, the new bohemians, and the Eugene Hard
Bop Collective. He composes, arranges, orchestrates, leads bands, and records. Dave is the trumpet teacher at Lane Community College, the brass coach of the Eugene
Springfield Youth Symphonies, and maintains his own studio of 20 trumpet students.