davemacdo

David’s music has been performed at venues around the world, including Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. He is from St. Louis, Missouri and received a B.M. in composition and trumpet performance from the University of Missouri – Columbia and a M.M. and D.M.A. in composition from Michigan State University. He has studied composition with Ricardo Lorenz, W. Thomas McKenney, and Stefan Freund. He currently teaches composition at the University of Central Florida and music business and critical listening at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida. He has previously taught at Grand Valley State University and Michigan State University.

In 2007, David won the Michigan State University Honors Competition for Emulsion Quintet, and in 2006, he was a winner of the 54th Annual BMI Student Composer Awards for Elegy. He was a 2005 finalist in the Sinquefield Family Foundation Prize in Composition. He has been commissioned by Hastings College Symphonic Band, H2 Quartet, and others.

David is one of the founders of SoundNotionTV, a podcast network featuring audio and video shows about music and the arts. He previously served as founder co-Artistic Director of SCENE&heard, a new music concert series at the (SCENE) Metrospace gallery in East Lansing, Michigan.

davemacdo’s tracks

• Stumpery (2017) by davemacdo
• Concerto for Steelpan and Chamber Ensemble, mvt. 1 by davemacdo
• Soon To Be Echoes (2012) by davemacdo
• Ungroup (2016) by davemacdo
• Linear Geometry (2015) by davemacdo
• Greek Lyric Poems (2007) - 6. to Oblivion by davemacdo
• Greek Lyric Poems (2007) - 4. The Dance by davemacdo
• Greek Lyric Poems (2007) - 2. Nocturne by davemacdo
• Greek Lyric Poems (2007) - 1. Invitation by davemacdo
• Greek Lyric Poems (2007) - 5. Eclipse by davemacdo