David was born and raised in Forestville, a small town in Northern California . He started playing music in fourth grade, on the viola, and from that early age it became apparent that he had a “musical ear.” He loved the viola because it was the underdog of all instruments, and not too common compared to violin. But by the teenage years he became restless with classical music and wanted to play rock music. He was all ready a drummer in the marching band he wanted to play the drum-set more than anything. His folks weren’t too keen on that because it was so loud, and the elementary school band had a drummer, but they needed a bassist. So at age 13 his parents rented him a bass, and it truly was love at first sight. It was an electric Fender Jazz bass, and soon he was imitating the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jaco Pastorious. “It was so great to be free to improvise on the bass and not have to read notes anymore.” He played in the jazz band in high school, and a few rock bands, and wrote and recorded some original tunes as well.

In college David had no idea what he wanted to do, he thought that if he were a Math major he could graduate and make a lot of money. He went to UC Santa Cruz, and he did well as a math student, but he was really missing music. So he decided to be a Music Major. and switched to the double bass. Four years later he graduated with honors, and was an accomplished young bassist who now could play classical bass, knew music theory, a lot of history, and loved to play jazz. He also found that he liked composing tunes, and wanted to experiment with finding new ways of expression through music and combining music with other mediums like video and art. “There is no end of possibilities in music and art,” he said. “Music is always new an exciting for me, and it is ever challenging to be original.”

David’s influences on the bass include John Clayton, Barry Green, Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, Buster Williams, Ray Brown, Christian McBride and Charles Mingus.

His other interests include soccer, swimming, reading, hiking, investing in the youth of tomorrow, fishing, gardening, saving the environment, and bicycling.

David will be attending Cal Arts for his Masters Degree this fall (2006) and hopes to explore these musical possibilities with like minded folk.