Steve Briody (DMA) has worked for several years in the NY area as a guitarist, composer, arranger, and college professor.

Briody now resides in Columbia, SC, where he is on the jazz/guitar faculty at the University of South Carolina. He is also on the guitar faculty at South Carolina State University and continues to teach Jazz and Composition (remotely) to graduate students at Five Towns College (where he served as the former music division chair).

In Columbia, he has played with the South Carolina Philharmonic, Dick Goodwin, funk drum legend Rick Latham, Danny Boozer, Robert Gardiner, Mark Rapp, Mike Frost, Roland Haynes, Jarvis Jett, Aiken Symphony, tour dates with the New York Bee Gees, the Neil Diamond Experience, & several other groups in various genres.