Michael Steinman is a native of California where he started playing trombone in the rich band tradition of Santa Clarita near Los Angeles.

After high school, he studied music at California State University, Northridge where he performed and toured internationally with all of the instrumental ensembles. He was a member of the Disney All American College Band in 1991 and 1st trombone in the Clyde Beatty Cole Brothers Circus Band in 1994.

He went on to do a double master’s degree in Trombone Performance and Jazz Studies at Indiana University where he performed and studied under the likes of Ray E. Cramer, David Baker, Dominic Spera, Pat Harbison, and M. Dee Stewart while maintaining a busy professional schedule performing with groups like the Spinners, the Guy Lombardo Band, and Patti Page; and held the position of Associate Instructor for the African American Arts Institute.

Shortly after finishing his Masters Degrees in Music, Michael was hired by the world famous Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and spent the following 3 years touring internationally as a featured performer. In order to realize his long held dream of living and working in Europe, Michael joined the U.S. Army Orchestra in 2003 and was stationed for 1.5 years in the US Army Europe Band in Heidelberg, Germany and then 2 more years in the NATO Jazz Orchestra at NATO Headquarters, Belgium where in addition to performing with the Concert, Marching and Jazz Bands he acted as Operations Manager organizing all aspects of performance tours throughout Europe. He left the U.S. Army in 2007 and moved to the South of France where he lives now with his family.

He is currently professor of trombone at the Music Schools of La Londe les Maures and Frejus and is a featured soloist and singer with the Sophisticated Mamas Jazz Quintet, Indiana Jazz Band, Ad Libitum Brass Quintet, Grande Ensemble de Cuivre du Var, Stabbin’ Cabin Brass Band, Phileor Symphony Orchestra and the Middle Jazz Orchestra.