David graduated from Melbourne University Institute of Education with a Bachelor of Education in Music Pedagogy and later completed a Master of Arts in Performance on double bass from Monash University where he studied with Steve Reeves, Mariyan Brysha, Geoff Kluke and Neil Jowsey. He freelanced in many jazz bands that accompanied artist including Dame Kiri Te Kanewa and Peter Allan as well as playing with the State Orchestra of Victoria and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in their Symphony in a Day program.

David played and recorded extensively with the Cotton Club Orchestra and for recordings by contemporary Australian composer Felix Werder, television and radio jingles, and the feature film “Romper Stomper” and Gippsland Country artist Steve Messer. David has toured throughout Europe including concerts in England, Italy, Germany, Singapore, Belgium, and Austria and studied conducting with Peter Clinch, Barry Bignall, John Hopkins AM, OBE and Graham Abbott. He studied singing in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand with Ann Marie Speed, Stephanie Marko, Helen Tiller, and Jo Estill. David has been musical director for over 80 shows included Oliver! Fiddler on the Roof, Wizard of Oz, Mikado, My Fair Lady, Singing in The Rain, Oklahoma! Cats, Carmen, Seussical, Shrek, Little Shop of Horrors, Wicked, Beauty and the Beast, Into the Woods and Les Misérables.

He conducted the Latrobe City Youth Band on two tours of China and Japan.

David co-founded Class Act Productions with friends and between 2015 to 2019 Class Act were involved with Manhattan Concert Productions were our young performers had the opportunity to perform in a Broadway show. David was also a member of the MSO Regional Teachers Forum, Orchestra Victoria mOVe schools’ program steering committee, Latrobe Regional Arts Forum, Latrobe City Sister Cities Committee and has recently retired about 29 years as a Leading Teacher/Learning Specialist at Lowanna College in Newborough.

David was awarded an OAM in the 2012 Australia Day Honours for his services to Music Education and the Performing Arts.