David Gardner Email & Phone Number

David B. Gardner (DMA, The University of Arizona) is Director of Worship and Arts at University Presbyterian Church in Seattle. Prior to his time in Seattle he spent 10 years as a college music professor.Dr. Gardner has conducted in New York City’s famed Carnegie Hall twice. He has performed as a vocal soloist, conductor, and chorus member with Wichita Grand Opera, and has prepared choruses for the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, Wichita Grand Opera, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, and the University of Arizona Symphony. During his time at Southwestern College, he led the college choirs in a concert tour of Italy that culminated in a performance during Easter Sunday Mass at the Basilica of St. Mark in Venice.Other past projects include performing in concert and recording with Linda Ronstadt (A Merry Little Christmas, Elektra Records), conducting the world premiere performance of “Send Down the Rain” by New York composer Andrew Teirstein, and organizing and conducting 350 singers and instrumentalists in a memorial performance of the Mozart Requiem on September 11, 2002 in Tucson’s Centennial Hall. His principal conducting mentors have been Maurice Skones and Bruce Chamberlain. While a DMA student at the University of Arizona, he was selected as one of 14 international conductors to lead the Grammy Award- winning Oregon Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra under the tutelage of Maestro Helmuth Rilling in the Oregon Bach Festival Masterclass in Conducting.Dr. Gardner is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Southwestern College Fassnacht Outstanding Faculty Award, and a second-place finish in the graduate division of the American Choral Directors Association National Student Conducting Awards Competition. He has been active both regionally and nationally as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator.

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