Super excited to announce new guest, Donald Grabowski, to The Story!
Don lives below Elizabethtown and has lived in Lancaster County all of his life. He has been a public school and university music educator for 33 years until 2013.
Don was the Director of Bass Studies at Millersville University for 18 years, and has been an active bassist in jazz, symphonic and chamber music. As Hempfield High School Director of Orchestras his orchestras were selected to perform at the PA Music Educators Conference twice, and is in his 13th year as adjudicator for Music in the Parks/Festivals of Music. He has traveled and performed in parts of Austria, Germany and Hungary, and since 2005 is a member of Allegro, The Chamber Orchestra of Lancaster. He has performed with other varied chamber music events, the Lancaster Opera Workshop, and various jazz and rock ensembles. He has been found playing bass in the Hershey Theater orchestra for traveling Broadway Shows, for stars like Jim Brickman, John Blake, and at American Music Theater for Don Rickles, Frankie Avalon and Bobby Rydell.
He is currently one of the bass players for LCBC Church serving numerous area campuses.
Don is the founder and owner of the online company Musician’s Practice Glove, since 2015. This is a glove for musicians who play under unique conditions and circumstances, sold on Amazon worldwide, Walmart and Sweetwater Music.
He has been Treasurer and Board Member of NAMI Lancaster County PA for 6 years and served as a Family-to-Family teacher with his wife. Don also has been a member of Elizabethtown Rotary Club for over 8 years and is Past President for 2020-21. Don and Peggy have 3 grown boys and two grand-children.
You can find Don and his work here:
https://linktr.ee/musicianspracticeglove
