David Macdonald

David Macdonald holds a DMA degree from The Manhattan School of Music, an MFA degree from SUNY Purchase and a BA from St. John’s College. His composition teachers have included Nils Vigeland, David Noon, Charles Jones and Joseph Webber. He is co-director of the Locrian Chamber Players contemporary music ensemble. He has been a fellow at June in Buffalo and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and has participated in master classes with Lukas Foss, George Crumb, Roger Reynolds, and others. He has been commissioned by The Elements Quartet, the Queen’s Chamber Band, the New Hudson Saxophone Quartet, and Zero Gravity. His works have been performed by The Chappaqua Orchestra, Collegium Westchester, on The Hartford Commissions Concert (Merkin Hall), Genealogies (Rock Hall, Philadelphia), The OWU NOW festival (Ohio) and in recitals in Chicago, Santa Fe, Israel, and Taiwan. He regularly contributes music to productions by The Actors’ Company Theater in New York, most recently its critically acclaimed off-Broadway revival of “Home” by David Storey in 2006. He teaches in the Theory and Composition Department at The Manhattan School of Music, and is the Director of Music at Pleasantville Presbyterian Church, Pleasantville, NY.