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David has played in the orchestras of the Stratford Festival, National Ballet, Hamilton Philharmonic and Toronto Symphony. He has played as a guest in the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, PEI Symphony and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal.

He was a founding member of the Canadian Saxophone Quintet and was a co-founder of the Scarborough Concert Band in 1972. He was also the first music director of Silverthorn Symphonic Winds and served as music director of Northdale Concert Band. David has conducted the Wellington Winds, York Symphony, Mississauga Symphony and the Guelph Symphony.

David has played in many film scores (Moonstruck, The Arrow), TV (Road to Avonlea, Alfred Hitchcock Presents) and jingles.

David is Canada’s leading basset horn player and played on the first recording of the Neue Mozart Ausgabe edition of Mozart’s Serenade in B Flat K361 with the Toronto Chamber Winds. He has been a member of the Festival Winds (Parry Sound) since the 1980’s.

He has held teaching positions at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, Mount Allison, University of Prince Edward Island and Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

David retired from the Toronto Symphony in 2011 after 28 years of service.

David has edited first editions of wind octets (Harmoniemusik) attributed to Mozart.