I began playing guitar when I was 12 years old and never looked back. Music has always been a part of my life and I love sharing that joy with others.
I started singing at church and in school, in various choirs and ensembles. I attended college on a Vocal Scholarship and majored in Music/Education for 2 years. I've also sung in a gospel trio for years.
I started playing in bands when I was in high school and played out for several years as the lead-singer/lead-guitarist.
Piano was actually my first instrument and I'd recommend piano lessons to anyone who wants to get a grasp of music theory. I moved onto guitar from there and couldn't put it down.
Later I played bass guitar in church and in my recordings at home. I'm very drawn to stringed instruments, so I tried mandolin and the dulcimer and picked them up pretty well. I've always had good rhythm, so percussion (drums, bongos, etc.) just came naturally.
And singing is something I love to do almost as much as playing...

Composer and guitarist David began formal music training at the age of 5 on the drums. He taught himself guitar as a teenager and began playing in local rock bands. Initially entering college as a Journalism major, his passion for music led him to Meramec College where he studied Music Theory with Robert C. Howard and classical guitar with Larry Bolles. From 1990 through 1993, he attended Webster University, and became only the second composer in the school's history to receive the BM/MM Scholarship. While at Webster, he studied composition with Dr. Kendall Stallings, Robert Chamberlin, and Kim Portnoy, Jazz History with Paul Demarinis, and 18th Century Counterpoint with Dr. Eloise Jarvis. During his education, he performed with many student ensembles and sat in on master classes by the great sitarist and surbaharist, Imrat Khan and jazz guitarist Peter Leitch.

In 1993 he started St. Louis SoundWorks with Grammy nominated Adam Long and Mark McClanahan that specialized in...