"David Brunner's music is lyrical, fresh-sounding and always creative. His music is a favorite with the choir as well as the audience!"
Lynne Gackle
School of Music
Baylor University
Sunday, November 17, 2019 at 7:46AM I was surprised and happy to be the first recipient of Florida ACDA's Impact Award for Distinguished Contributiion to the Choral Profession at the state conference a few weeks back. Thank you to my friends and colleagues!
Sunday, November 17, 2019 at 7:38AM It's been a busy fall for new works! In addition to the new treble version of HIGH FLIGHT for Martha Shaw and the Spivey Hall Children's Chorus and SPIRIT OF THE LAKE for Nancy Plantinga and the Lakeshore Community Chorus in Saugatuck, Michigan, I rescored WELL SUNG SONG for Ahra Cho's Little OL Korea choir. THE UNKNOWN REGION for SATB chorus and piano was delivered to Robert Lamb and the Brevard Community Chorus for their 50th anniversary a few weeks back and I just finished an arrangement of the Spanish lullaby Arrorró mi Niño for Wayland Rogers.
Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 6:22PM Well, a few months have come and gone without an update and we've moved into pumpkin spice season already! I was on the graduate faculty at the VanderCook School of Music in Chicago this summer, teaching an advanced choral conducting course and directing the graduate chorale -- wonderful students in a strong program and supportive atmosphere. (And graduation in Orchestra Hall!) A musical highlight of the summer was hearing Yo-Yo Ma play the Bach cello suites on the great lawn of Milennium Park in Chicago with Doreen Rao and friends. Loved the river and lake cruise with VanderCook students, faculty and staff, bike rides along Belmont Harbor and Lake Michigan, the Old Town Art Fair, yummy food in outdoor seating (PingPong, Spacca Napoli), and neighborhood walks.
At Martha Shaw's request, I've rescored my HIGH FLIGHT for treble voices, which she'll premiere with the Spivey Hall Children's Chorus for the ACDA Children and Youth Choir retreat in Atlanta in January. Also finishing up SPIRIT OF THE LAKE for the 10th anniversary celebration of the Lakeshore Community Chorus in Saugatuck/Douglas, Michigan, on a new text by Michigan poet Linda Nemec Foster. Nancy Plantinga will conduct that premiere in May.
Have begun my last semester of teaching at the University of Central Florida, which will culminate in a grand celebration concert in November. It is, however, still hovering around 90 degrees in Orlando...
Monday, March 4, 2019 at 9:47PM The combined choirs of the Association for Music in International Schools (AMIS) performed my CHANTON, MES AMIS, written for their choral festival in Beijing, on Saturday, March 2nd. Thanks, Scott Lounsbury, for another fantastic text in a dozen languages for these singers from thirty-eight international schools -- Bombay to Bangkok, Brussels to Beirut!
Monday, March 4, 2019 at 9:44PM The combined choirs of Valencia, Seminole and Eastern Florida state colleges, along with my own University Chorus from the University of Central Florida, sang the first performance of HALLELUJAH FROM THE HEART OF GOD in the round sanctuary of Sts. Peter & Paul catholic church in Winter Park, Florida, February 21st. Sincere thanks to my colleagues and friends Dianna Campbell, Alan Gerber and Robert Lamb for suggesting this commissioned work collaboration.