Freelance Musician
From an early age, Donny learned to appreciate all styles of music. This fascination lead to a full-time career in music, education and performance. After graduating high school, Donny attended The University of North Texas to focus on music performance. Shortly after arriving, he began playing every chance possible. During his time at UNT, he was an active freelance musician playing with many groups around town, recording/jingles, doing short runs on all major cruise lines, working for Disney, teaching trumpet, etc.
Since graduating UNT, he continues to excel in music by performing with a wide variety of local, national, and international acts, and travelling the country with pop, doo-wop, soft rock, salsa, swing, merengue, country, etc artists.
Originally from Austin, Donny now lives in the Dallas, TX area where he is a busy freelance performance/recording musician, school clinician/guest artist, guest judge, and band leader.
For most work, Donny chooses his Large Bore Lightweight #43 Sterling Plus bell 43LR
Bach Stradivarius