About

David graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music where he was a student of the famous professor, Derrick Wyndham, himself a student of Artur Schnabel and Moriz Rosenthal.

From the RNCM he went to study in Paris with Yvonne Lefébure and later with Alain Planès. His final studies were at the Hochshule für Musik in Hanover with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling where he obtained his Konzertexam.

After graduating from the Hochshule he was invited to play at the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg at the Holland Music Festival and he gave several performances in Britain and Germany. Then in 1990, after winning the Maisie Lewis Award for young artists, he gave his first recital in London at the Purcell Hall.

Other concerts rapidly followed – firstly at the Schleswig Holstein Festival, then at the Kammermusiktage Mettlach in Saarland, and at the Bratislava Music Festival with the Nord Deutsche Rundfunk from Hanover, as well as performances on radio, television on the German public broadcasting channel ZDF, the BBC and France Music.  

David, who is also an international level bridge player, has also performed in Central America and in the United States, where he played in Boston, Miami and New York. 

He inaugurated the Music Festival at the Villa Domergue in Cannes where he also played in performances for two pianos as well as with the Ballet of Nice Opera orchestra.

David's first recording, featured the 2nd sonata of Rachmaninov and the Liszt B minor sonata. His globe-trotting career saw him in Russia and then in Montreal in 2002, and it was while in the latter city that he found himself as a finalist in the World Bridge Championship.

He has spent much of his career passing on his passion for the piano after becoming a teacher at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles and as an invited guest teacher at the Gnessine Academy in Moscow.

He is known for choosing unexpected and imaginative programmes as well as giving masterclasses all over the world. With the 50th anniversary of the death of Shostakovich in mind he decided to film the mighty preludes and fugues, a project recently completed in Budapest.

David first played the preludes and fugues in 2006, then at the Gnessine Academy. The complex work, written in every key from C-major to B-minor, foretells future works of the great composer as well as harking back to past compositions. Its two-and-a-half-hour work, with all its five voice complexities, relit the touch paper.

Shortly afterwards David played Bach’s 48 Preludes and Fugues to great acclaim before interpreting the Goldberg Variations at the Rostropovitch Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan. This was followed by a tour of China.

Next summer marks the 275th anniversary of the death of Bach, whose preludes and fugues so clearly influenced Shostakovich’s work and David plans to do a series of concerts and masterclasses juxtaposing the two and highlighting the links.