Bio

Wayne Myers is an active freelance trombonist based in Austin, TX. Wayne has performed with dozens of groups of nearly all genres, including Star Parks, The Stingers ATX, Austin Musical Theatre Orchestra, Bobby Patterson, Sly Curtis, Tony Campise Big Band, Nash Hernandez Orchestra, Tony Guerrero, Lynval Golding (The Specials), The Killer Bees, and Golden Arm Trio. He has toured Europe several times with The Stingers ATX, Contra-Coup, and Jamaican legends Laurel Aitken and Doreen Shaffer (of The Skatalites). His U.S. tours with Golden Arm Trio and The Stingers ATX have taken him everywhere from dive bars to the Kennedy Center (D.C.) to the Knitting Factory (NYC) to Chicago Public Radio. Guest performances include Big Star, The Walkmen, Broken Social Scene, Spoon (Austin City Limits Festival and the ACL television broadcast), Grupo Fantasma, The Wheeler Brothers, Manhattan Transfer, Ballet Austin, and the Austin Chamber Music Festival Orchestra with Maestro Peter Bay. Wayne was also a featured solo recitalist for Austin’s Golden Hornet Project’s concert series.

Wayne earned his master’s degree in trombone performance at Penn State University, where he was the first music major to receive the University Graduate Fellowship. While at Penn State, he was assistant conductor of the brass choir and trombone choir and a lecturer in music history and brass pedagogy. Wayne also teaches private lessons at public schools and fine arts academies in the Austin area.

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Performance Experience

Wayne Myers has performed and/or recorded as a regular member in:
Bobby Patterson (blues/soul)
Star Parks (alt rock)
The Stingers ATX (rocksteady/reggae/ska)
RokkaTone (acoustic folk)
Golden Arm Trio/Golden Hornet Project (alt-classical/jazz)
Graham Reynolds (film/modern classical composer)
Urban Achievers Brass Band (New Orleans-style jazz band)
Tinnarose (alt rock)
Sly Curtis (Curtis Mayfield/Sly and the Family Stone tribute band – as performer and horn arranger)
Simon Says (Paul Simon tribute band)
End of the World Orchestra (big band/experimental)
Austin Trombone Ensemble (classical trombone choir)
Duke! (Duke Ellington tribute band)
Bee vs. Moth (alt-jazz)
My Exotic Other (jazz/world music)
Monster Big Band
Austin Musical Theatre Orchestra
Grupo Combinao (Latin/salsa)
London Calling (corporate events/weddings – rock/pop band)
The Newsboyz (cover band)
Killer Bees (reggae)
Contra Coup (reggae)
Don Chani (reggae)
Beautiful Supermachines (rock)
Chris Black and the Holy Ghost (blues/alternative rock)
Karison (Cuban)
The Earthtones (reggae)
Pennsylvania Centre Stage Theatre Orchestra
Altoona Symphony Orchestra (Pennsylvania)
Nittany Valley Symphony (PA)
Music at Penns Woods Orchestra (PA)

and as a guest performer for:
Spoon (alt rock)
Big Star (SXSW reunion show)
The Walkmen (alt rock)
Broken Social Scene (alt rock)
Mogwai (alternative)
The Temptations Revue (soul)
Grupo Fantasma (Latin)
Lynval Golding (from The Specials – as performer and horn co-arranger)
Laurel Aitken (ska)
Doreen Shaffer (from The Skatalites)
Betty Harris (soul/blues)
Barbara Lynn (soul)
Mau Mau Chaplains (reggae)
The Babylonians (ska/reggae)
Soul Man Sam Evans (soul/blues)
Menotti HiFi (dub/reggae – Münster, Germany)
Trabuko (Latin)
Nash Hernandez Orchestra (big band)
DJEA (rock/hip-hop – performances in Potsdam, Germany)
Desorden Publico (Venezuelan ska/rock band – performances in Amsterdam and Berlin)
Andy Wiersma/Black Diamonds (blues – performances in London)
Tony Campise Big Band
Hector Ward and the Big Time (blues rock)
Oscar Ornelas (jazz)
Austin Jazz Band (big band)
Darius Jackson (blues/rock – as performer and horn arranger)
The Normans (alt rock)
The Invincible Czars (progressive rock/jazz)
Blanton Museum Chamber Ensemble (Brent Baldwin, director)
Ballet Austin
Austin Chamber Music Festival Orchestra (Peter Bay, conductor)
Mid-Texas Symphony
Bobby Meyer Concept Orchestra (jazz)
Bobby Caldwell Orchestra (big band)
Papa Mali and the Instigators (blues)
Hard Proof Afrobeat
Offset (Latin rock)
The Calm Blue Sea (alternative)
The Wheeler Brothers (rock)
Brown Whornet (rock/punk)
Peter Stopschinski (alt-classical)
The Boxing Lesson (alternative rock)
Austin Polish Society (classical chamber music)
Justin Sherburn (alternative rock and theater music)
Bob Gallarza (tejano)
Rhythm of Black Lines (alternative rock)
Nakia and His Southern Cousins (blues)
Ray Price Orchestra (country)
Manhattan Transfer
Bernadette Peters
Roger Williams
several brass quintets (including Hill Country Brass Quintet, Capital of Texas Brass Quintet, Austin City Brass Quintet, and others)
several church ensembles (including Riverbend Church, Shepherd of the Hills Presbyterian Church, and others)
several pop/cover bands (including Memphis Train Revue, Eclipse, Duck Soup, and others)
several theatre orchestras (including Zilker Theatre Orchestra and others)
several Latin/salsa bands (including Tony Guerrero and New Generation, Mambo Redd, Ritmo Tres, and others)

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Discography (as trombone performer unless otherwise noted):

Star Parks
The New Sounds of Late Capitalism - Modern Outsider (2020) – horn co-arranger/performer
I Used to Go Here (film soundtrack) – Myriad Pictures (2020)

The Stingers ATX (Discogs listing) – horn arranger/performer on all
The Stingers (2000)
This Good Thing – Grover Records (2002)
Big (in Mississippi) (EP) – Electric Entertainment (2002)
Rich Boy (single) – Grover (2002)
Three Points (EP) – Grover (2003)
All in a Day – Grover Records (2004)
This Time Around – Mossburg (2008)
Regards to You (single)
The Stingers and I-Gents (EP)
The Stingers ATX/The Notables – Falling from the Edge (EP) – Mossburg

Contra Coup
On Time – Mossburg (2007)

Lynval Golding (from The Specials) and Contra Coup
Know Your Rights – Mossburg (2016) – horn arranger/performer

Menotti HiFi
“Yksi” (2023)

Graham Reynolds/Golden Arm Trio
Holiday Gift – Pecan Crazy (2000)
The Tick-Tock Club - Innova (2007/2017)
Cult of Color/Call to Color (ballet score soundtrack) – Innova (2008/2017)
Duke! Three Portraits of Ellington – Innova (2011)
A Scanner Darkly (film soundtrack) – Thousand Words/Section Eight (2006)
All is Bright (film soundtrack) – Greenestreet Films (2013)
Marfa: A Country and Western Big Band Suite – Golden Hornet (2019)

ContraNova
Infinity in All Directions – Diabolical Genius (2007)

The Boxing Lesson
Big Hits! – Frenchie Smith Records/Cliff House Records (2013)

Tongue and Groove Theatre
The Red Balloon – Justin Sherburn (2010)

Beautiful Supermachines
Shut Up - Chicken Ranch Records (2009)

The Invincible Czars
The Nutcracker Suite – Above Suspicion Records (2007)

RokkaTone
In This Life – Grover Records/Ska in the World (2006) – horn arranger/performer

Rhythm of Black Lines
Human Hand Animal Band – Gold Standard Laboratories (2004)

Chris Black & the Holy Ghost
Moving in This House – Chris Black (2002)

Mogwai
Come On Die Young – Chemikal Underground (1999/2014)

Altoona Symphony Orchestra
Turn of the Century Masterpieces – ASO Records (1998)

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