David Tronzo (born 1957) is an American guitarist, best known[1][2][3] for his innovation of pairing the techniques of electric slide guitar with the genres of bebop, modern jazz, rock, downtown music, and experimental music.
[3] As Visiting Artist at Berlin's Hochschule der Künste (HdK), his technique on the slide guitar was documented in two doctoral theses in Germany, in 1995 and 2001.
[3] He has also been an Artist in Residence at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine.
His work has also appeared on the soundtracks of two films: Short Cuts in 1993 and Excess Baggage in 1997.
Tronzo has been an associate professor at the Berklee College of Music[7] since 2003.