Steven Marx

Steven Marx is an international competition winner and in demand as a soloist, conductor, and adjudicator. He is a former Yamaha Young Artist and has performed throughout the United States and internationally in countries such as China, England, Estonia, Japan, Taiwan, Canada, Macao, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Lativia, Lithuania, Bratislava, Italy, and the Bahamas. Marx has won numerous prizes at the National Trumpet Competition and was also named first place prize winner in the Mock Orchestra Competition at the International Trumpet Guild Convention in Manchester, England. He was awarded the prestigious Performers Certificate and was the recipient of the Teaching Assistant Prize of Teaching Excellence during his graduate work at the Eastman School of Music. 

Marx completed a Bachelor of Music degree from Grand Valley State University, a Masters of Music in Performance from the Eastman School of Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance and Music Education from the Eastman School of Music. Marx has taught at Colorado State University, University of Northern Colorado, Nazareth College, Blue Lakes Fine Arts Camp, Grand Valley Trumpet Seminar, and Orvieto Musica Trumpet Seminar in Orvieto, Italy prior to his appointment at Gettysburg College in 2015.

Currently, Dr. Marx is Director of Marching and Symphony Bands and Instructor of Applied Trumpet in the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College. Marx is in demand as a clinician, conductor, and educator for wind ensembles, orchestras, marching bands and brass ensembles. In the past, Marx has been a clinician for award-winning middle and high school ensembles in Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, and Colorado. He was the conductor of brass ensembles at Colorado State University and the National Brass Academy, in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Marx has been a featured educator and artist at the Grand Valley International Trumpet Institute, the Utah State University Trumpet Festival, and Orvieto Musica in Italy.