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Dan Nesbitt is currently attending The University of Michigan and is working towards his Bachelor's degree in Trumpet Performance as a student of Bill Campbell. In high school, he was a four-time all-state selection by the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association, and appointed principal trumpet in the All-Michigan Orchestra in 2005. An Arion Award winner as director's choice for outstanding musical achievement at Grand Ledge High School in Michigan, Dan performed the Arutunian Trumpet Concerto with the Sudler Flag of Honor-winning Grand Ledge High School Wind Symphony. As a sophomore at GLHS, he won the International Trumpet Guild's Scholarship Competition as one of four 18-under winners worldwide.

At the University of Michigan, he has performed in the Symphony Band and the Grammy-winning University Symphony Orchestra, as well as in numerous brass ensembles. In 2006, he played for the premiere recording of James P. Johnson's blues opera De Organizer with the University Symphony Orchestra as principal trumpet, and also Johnson's The Dreamy Kid as third trumpet. He has performed in Europe and has participated in several summer festivals such as the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina and at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Summer Institute at Meadowbrook. He has played in masterclasses for Adolph "Bud" Herseth, Michael Sachs, Bill Williams and Tage Larsen, and under the batons of such world renowned conductors as David Effron, Keith Lockhart, Neeme Jarvi, Itzhak Perlman, Yan Pascal Tortelier and Mark Wigglesworth.