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"David Brunner's music has an immediacy that is attractive to an audience.  His strong sense of vocal line, his solid musicianship and his interesting text settings make his choral music an important voice in our time"

Philip Brunelle
Artistic Director
VocalEssence

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

2010 - 2011

This season David conducts in Virginia, Florida, Illinois and Washington with the Northwest Bach Festival Chorus, appears for a seventh time at Carnegie Hall, conducting a program of his works for chorus and orchestra, and in July conducts an International Children’s Choir at the Festival of the Aegean in Syros, Greece.  He is Headliner Clinician for the Michigan Music Educators Association and clinician at the Florida Music Educators Association and also conducts workshops and festivals in Georgia, Florida and Missouri.  New works premiere in Mississippi, South Carolina and Washington and Spiritual Musick, the commission for a consortium of thirteen choirs premieres in California, Illinois, Louisiana,  Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, Illinois, Canada and Scotland.  The symphonic wind ensemble transcription of Simple Boat by Ron Ellis premieres at the American School Band Directors Association national convention.


2009 - 2010

Last year David conducted in Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Alabama and Louisiana, and was a clinician in Chicago.  New works premiered with the Men's Honor Choir at the Southern Division ACDA convention in Memphis (Brothers of the Singing Void), and in Colorado (SATB The Circles of Our Lives), Maryland (Rainstick), and Florida (Southern Gals). 

2008 - 2009

From 2008 - 2009 David conducted choirs from Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines and China at the Asian Pacific Activities Conference Choral Festival in Kobe, Japan, All-State High School Women's Choirs in Virginia and North Dakota, the All-City Chorus in Norman, Oklahoma and returned to Carnegie Hall for a sixth time, conducting a concert of his works for chorus and orchestra.  He also appeared as conductor for the Portland Symphonic Girlchoir Workshop (Oregon), the High School Choral Leadership Workshop at Emporia State University in Kansas, and was headliner clinician and conductor at the Voices United tri-state conference at George Mason University in Virginia.  New works premiered in Florida, Indiana, South Carolina, Michigan, England, Scotland and the Netherlands and at national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association (All I Was Doing Was Breathing) and the Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts (The Music Sings in Them).  The orchestral version of I Am in Need of Music had its first performance with the Texas All-State Mixed Choir.

2007 - 2008

During the 2007 - 2008 season, David conducted the Children's Honor Choir at the ACDA Northwest Division convention in Vancouver and the Junior High Honor Choir at the Southern Division convention in Louisville, the Arkansas All-State Men's Chorus, the Oklahoma Arts Institute summer chorus, and regional honor and festival choirs in Pennsylvania, Washington, Florida and New York.  He also presented for the Maryland Music Educators state conference and the Great Plains Music Education Workshop at Emporia State University in Kansas.  New works premiered in Dallas, Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Fargo, Albany, Pasadena and San Francisco.

2006 - 2007

In the 2006 - 2007 season, David conducted honor choirs at the North Central and Southwestern ACDA division conventions, the West Virginia Middle School All-State Chorus, festival choirs in California, Indiana, Florida, New York and Illinois, and the debut of his symphonic band and choral work, Benedicto, for AMIS (the Association for Music in International Schools) in Brussels, Belgium.  A Living Song premiered at the New Millennium Festival in York, England and other works had their first performances in Connecticut, Florida, West Virginia, Georgia, and Illinois.

2005 - 2006

This season David conducted choruses in Colorado, New York and Florida and, on two occasions, performances at Carnegie Hall.  In addition he was composer-in-residence and conducting coach at the Chorus America Conducting Master class in San Francisco, clinician for the Texas Music Educators Association Conference, Central Connecticut State University’s Summer Choral Workshop, the National conference of the American Choral Directors Association in Miami, and with  choirs in Maryland, Michigan and Florida.  New works premiered in Nebraska, Colorado, Texas and Washington, D.C.

2004 - 2005

From 2004 - 2005 David conducted all-county, all-state and festival choirs in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Missippi, Pennsylvania and Illinois, and a program of his works for singers and orchestra at Carnegie Hall.  He appeared as a clinician for the Art of Literacy Symposium in Sarasota, Florida, the Choral Music Experience certification course at Elon College in North Carolina, and the Pennsylvania state ACDA conference at Penn State University.  New works premiered in Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Massachusetts and his intergenerational work Simple Boat, written for the Sierra Leone Project of War Child Netherlands, debuted in the Netherlands.

2003 - 2004

During the 2003-04 season David conducted choirs in Oklahoma, Illinois, Pennsylvania and California and the National Mennonite High School Choral Festival in Virginia; appeared as clinician for the Tennessee Arts Academy in Nashville; and served on the conducting faculty for the New Millennium Festival and Choral Music Experience Institute in Cardiff, Wales. In Orlando, his university singers collaborated with the Orlando Opera and Cirque du Soleil in an acclaimed new production of Orff’s Carmina Burana. New works premiered in Boston for the Eastern Division ACDA, in Louisville for the Kentucky Music Educators Association All-State Children’s Chorus, and in Illinois for the 20th anniversary of the Young Naperville Singers.

2002 - 2003

In the 2002-03 season David conducted choirs in Illinois, Florida, New York and Vancouver, ACDA honor choirs in Wisconsin and West Virginia, and the Tennessee All-State Mixed Chorus; appeared as a clinician for the Tennessee ACDA state conference, Northern Illinois University School of Music, Cascade 2002 for the Ontario (Canada) Music Educators Association, and conducted his Ode to the Present and Future Days with 180 singers and orchestra at Carnegie Hall. New works premiered in Tennessee, Florida and Texas.

2001 - 2002

From 2001-02 David conducted choirs in Oklahoma, Louisiana, South Carolina, Florida, New York, Texas and Vancouver, and the Georgia 6th Grade Statewide Chorus, and toured Europe with the Florida Ambassadors of Music; appeared as commencement speaker for the University of Illinois School of Music; and as clinician at the Iowa ACDA state conference, the Kennesaw State University Music Education Conference in Georgia and a week long course of choral music study at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania. New works premiered in West Virginia and Glasgow, Scotland.

2000 - 2001

During the 2000-01 season David conducted choirs in Iowa, Virginia, New York and Illinois, and the Florida and Kentucky All-State Children’s Choruses; was a clinician for the Ohio and Oklahoma ACDA state conferences, the Perspectives Choral Workshop in Santa Fe, the MENC Northwestern Division conference in Spokane, and an adjudicator for the Undergraduate and Graduate Student Conducting Award Finals for the ACDA National Convention in San Antonio. New works premiered in Florida (Miami and Orlando), Connecticut, Michigan and West Virginia.