Steve Layman, the band’s seventh music director, is a native of Toledo,
Ohio. He received his undergraduate degree in Music Education from Ohio Northern
University and his Masters in Music from the University of Kentucky where he was
a tuba student of Rex Conner. Mr. Layman joined the band as a tubist in the
summer of 1977 and he became the band’s first chair trombonist in 1987. Mr.
Layman has been a band director with Albemarle County schools since 1977,
serving as band director at Walton Middle School for eight years and Western
Albemarle High School since 1985. His Western Albemarle concert and
jazz bands have consistently received superior ratings at district, state and
regional competitions and he has served as a brass clinician and concert judge
in Virginia and Kentucky.
Mr. Layman directed the University of Virginia Symphonic Band and Brass
Ensembles between 1984 and 1990 and he is a member of the adjunct music faculty
at Piedmont Virginia Community College teaching trumpet, trombone, baritone and
tuba. As a brass performer he has performed with the Charlottesville University
Community Symphony Orchestra, the Heritage Repertory Theater, the New Lyric
Theater, the Oratorio Society of Charlottesville, the Richmond Symphony, the
Sentimental Journey Big Band, and the Virginia Consort Festival Orchestra. He
served as the band’s assistant director between 1985 and 2007.
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