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BIO
Jan. 2006: Continues working for Jews for Jesus at their San Francisco headquarters. Begins composing his 3rd instrumental CD.
June 2004 to December 2005: Joins "Liberated Wailing Wall" mobile music/drama team with Jews for Jesus. The team travels over 75,000 miles in the US and Canada, raising high the name of Yeshus/Jesus. They tell and show many that it IS a very Jewish thing to believe in Jesus.
(The new team: http://www.jewsforjesus.org/programs/lww)
Jan.-May 2004 -- Releases "When God Breathes", a CD of 8 original songs in collaboration with Guelph, Ontario Canada singer/songwriter Gabriella Vegvari. (Revelation Sound Studio, Guelph, Ont., Canada, Brad Dugas, Producer & Engineer)
May 2004 -- Releases 2nd instrumental CD, "Clothed in Gladness".
April 2004 -- Songs from upcoming "Clothed in Gladness" CD play on new radio station, Faith FM.
2002-03 -- Plays cello parts on top Canadian "new country" artists' CD's such as Jamie Warren and Bev Mahood. (Cedartree Studio, Kitchener, ON, Richard Hutt, Producer)
Oct. 2001 - Syngenta Corporation uses music from "A World of Good" on a special commemorative CD given to delegates at a recent International Turf Grass Conference held at Toronto's Convention Centre.
Sept. 2001 - Contracted by hymn writers Campbell & Mary Round (Guelph) to transcribe their Easter Cantata into published form.
Fall 2000, Fall 2001: - Plays cello parts on several Cedeartree Studio projects destined for CMT (Country Music Television). (Richard Hutt, Producer).
July 2000 - Recorded cello for several songs on the upcoming CD of the top Canadian country singer/songwriter, Diane Chase. (Cedartree Studios - Richard Hutt, Producer)
Spring/Summer 2000 - Began first in a series of enjoyable concerts (for me that is!) at retirement homes in Guelph, surrounding communities and the greater Toronto area. (See Duo Uno).
May, 2000 - First solo concerts since performing in Thunder Bay (1995).
May, 2000 - Recorded cello tracks for the debut CD of Laura Bird, entitled Dreamwalker. (Escarpment Sound - Karen Kane, Producer)
March 2000 - Recorded cello for two songs on Straight to All Right by the group Krazy House. (Cedartree Studios - Richard Hutt, Producer)
September 1999 - Begins work on next two CD projects: 1) New original instrumental compositions to follow "A World of Good". 2) A CD of David's arrangements of many popular hymns and Jewish melodies.
August 1999 - Says goodbye to his wonderful years with acoustic folk band, Kyn, so that he can pursue more personal music projects. (Check out their new CD Ragged by Design)
July 1999 - Hymn "God Whose Nimble Fingers" appears in print, published by Hope Publishing.
January 1998 - Hymn "Called To This Place" (lyrics by Peter-Fergus Moore) is published in Gathering. (BTW, Peter has written and published a book called "Many paths up the mountain : minority religions in Thunder Bay" -- ISBN 0-9688355-0-3)
August 1997 - Appears on Bill Houston's new CD, "North of Superior", playing piano, synthesizer and cello. (Bill wrote "Ojibway Country" for the first ever IMAX film). See CD cover at right …
Moves to southern Ontario (Guelph) as member of folk/pop group, Kyn.
May 1997 - Releases "A World of Good", his first CD (but second album) of original piano and cello instrumental music. (CD produced by Karen Kane [Tracy Chapman, Danny Marks] );
May 1997 - With folk/pop band Kyn, releases CD "Relatively Speaking" which includes his own Latin jazz tune, "Con Conga".
April 1997 - His piece, "Till We Meet Again", is used by the Global Change Game International in their promotional videos;
March 1997 - Hymn "God's Nimble Fingers", co-written by Rev. David Sparks (Thunder Bay) , is acquired by Hope Publishing (US). (Expected release: Spring 1999).
1995 - Cellist in the orchestral soundtrack for 'Beauty, the Beach & the Bizarre" by Robert Furstein".
May 1984 - Graduated from M.I.T. (Mechanical Engineering)
1983 -- as a member of the cello section of the M.I.T.-Wellesely Symphony, performs Stravinsky's Firebird Suite in Carnegie Hall.
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