American musician Damian Boyd is a professional performing trombonist with a passion for swing music and the great American songbook.

Although he has performed from Florida to New York on the American east coast, he maintains a rigorous performance schedule in his home state of Ohio with the jazz duo Damian & Dane.

Alongside this, Boyd enjoys a rigorous schedule as Director of the Shawshank Jazz Orchestra, an ensemble that utilizes its own unique blend of big band swing and classic cool jazz.

Possessing a zeal for perpetuating the art form through education, as an educator, Boyd is on faculty at the Richland Academy of the Arts in Mansfield, Ohio, where he is the Director of the Mansfield Youth Jazz Orchestra.

He is also the Director of Bands at Foundation Academy in Mansfield.

Damian plays the Wessex PB4501 Premier Trombone.

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