David is an accomplished composer, scholar, pianist, and educator. He currently serves as a senior music specialist and concert producer at the Library of Congress where he regularly presents the industry’s leading artists and ensembles. Previously, David served as the Artistic and New Music Coordinator of the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra in South Africa. There he worked with composers, musicians and conductors from around the country and internationally to facilitate the creation and presentation of new music and other compelling programming. David’s award-winning compositions range from solo pieces to large orchestral works and independent film scores. He holds degrees from Duke University, the University of Louisville, and the Eastman School of Music, where he earned his PhD in composition. 

David is an active pianist and writer, focusing on new and 19th-century music, with a special interest in Liszt and his contemporaries. His writings have been published in the Liszt Society Journal, Perspectives of New Music, Music & Musical Performance, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Arts, New Catholic Encyclopedia, Musikproduction Hoeflich, and multiple CD liner notes. He is also known for his large array of transcriptions, primarily for solo piano and wind quintet, in addition to arrangements for other forces, with commercial recordings by ensembles such as the Leipzig String Quartet, Inscape Chamber Orchestra, and District5.