biography.

David is a composer and music creative for film, concert performance and fixed media.

Born and raised in Austin, Texas, he explored many styles of music growing up, from classical to jazz to rock. Over the last 20 years as an acoustic guitarist, singer/songwriter, electronic musician and producer, these experiences serendipitously led David to scoring several award-winning independent films. In collaborating with film and dance companies he learned the ropes of serving other art forms, and how to effectively communicate emotion and a sense of story. Today, his composing process is often inspired by the expressive artforms of film, pictures and dance.

David's experience as a film composer informs much of his sensibilities toward lyrical long-form melody and orchestral clarity of line. However, as a life-long student of composition, his journey has forged additional depths beyond the emotively tonal into what his colleagues have labeled as “neoclassical pandiatonicism.” And it is this depth along with David's love of jazz, drum corps, and interval theory, that produces an amalgamation of huge emotional range.

He truly enjoys collaborating with directors, filmmakers, choreographers and performing artists. His wife Lisa and I have been married 30 years and have two grown children, Rebecca and Justus.

David supports the American Composers Forum (ACF), and is a member of the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA), Texas Orchestra Directors Association (TODA) and Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI).

PUBLICATIONS.

From the Heart of the Father

$70.00

Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus

$65.00