Ever since receiving my first album, I knew “what I wanted to be when I grew up”. I had to create music.

I received my first guitar as a gift for my 11th birthday and guitar lessons for Christmas that same year. I fell in love with the instrument immediately and there was no looking back. While a young David may have dreamed of filling arenas, I always felt a draw to the sound of an acoustic guitar. As the years went on those childhood dreams turned into a fascination with more intricate and emotive instrumental music. Hearing the fingerstyle instrumental epic “Ocean” by John Butler for the first time set me on a completely different path which led to me finding my musical voice, ironically without actually using my voice like I always thought I would.

So much for belting out rock ballads to stadiums filled with people. Instead, what my future held was playing intimate solo fingerstyle guitar gigs at local venues.

Dealing with chronic illness for most of my life, music has been an incredible outlet. I think the famous Norwegian painter Edvard Munch said it best: “Art comes from joy and from pain… but mostly from pain.” I’ve certainly found that to be true both for the art that resonates with me as well as the things that I desire to create.

I’m grateful every day to have a Creator that gave us the ability to create and absorb art that can help us make sense of this hurting, and often confusing, world.

In 2017, I released my first EP titled “Trust” featuring 4 original instrumental compositions followed in 2020 by a single titled “Distance and Time” written in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and then later that year the full length album “A Year in Review” featuring songs written and produced while the world was on lockdown.

It was during that lockdown period that I had a chance to explore something that I’ve always been interested in but never had the time to fully explore: composition. Once again, another life altering shift came my way. While the live music industry was shutdown, I dove into screen composition headfirst leading to signing contracts with several production music libraries followed by worldwide placements. I’m so grateful for my amazing library partners.

I love composing music using my background as performing musician to blend live instruments with software instruments and synthesizers. Who ever said a banjo and an orchestra couldn’t work together?

Outside of music, I’m a certified “Weird Coffee Person” who could be content spending days dialing in the perfect shot of espresso, an animal lover who named his dog after my favorite coffee drink (Cortado), and photographer who loves using the medium of photography to look at “composition” in a whole new light.