David’s recent performances have included the role of Thoas in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride with Boston Baroque; Monteverdi’s dramatic scena Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda with American Bach Soloists; Bach’s St. John Passion and Christmas Oratorio with Emmanuel Music; and concerts at the preeminent renaissance vocal festival Laus Polyphoniae in Antwerp, Belgium with the ensemble Blue Heron. Highlighting the 2022-23 season, David is a featured soloist with the Handel and Haydn Society; he debuts as Jesus in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and at Bachfest Leipzig with Emmanuel Music; and he appears as Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni with Boston Baroque.
A former Emerging Artist with Boston Lyric Opera, David has sung over 15 roles with the company, including Pallante in Handel’s Agrippina, Junius in Britten’s Rape of Lucretia, and The Officer in Glass’ two-character drama In the Penal Colony — a portrayal the Wall Street Journal hailed as “disturbingly eloquent.” David’s other opera credits include Florida Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Seattle Opera, Boston Early Music Festival, Odyssey Opera, and the Rossini Festival in Wildbad, Germany. Additional roles include Aeneas in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Taddeo in Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri, and the title role in Britten’s Noye’s Fludde.
David’s concert engagements have ranged from Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 at St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice to various performances with the Boston Pops. He made his solo debut in Carnegie Hall with Gustavo Dudamel and the Israel Philharmonic, and he has sung with the Cleveland Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, and San Antonio Symphony. David has received notable acclaim for performances of baroque repertoire with ensembles including the Handel and Haydn Society, American Bach Soloists, Apollo’s Fire, TENET, Seraphic Fire, and Arion Baroque Orchestra in Montreal. He has also appeared at the Tanglewood Festival, Carmel Bach Festival, and Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. In 2016 David was runner-up in the Oratorio Society of New York's Lyndon Woodside Solo Competition, the premier U.S. contest for this repertoire.
An avid recitalist and chamber musician, David has performed at the Caramoor Festival, the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival, and at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. David is an artist member of Music For Food, a volunteer, musician-led chamber music initiative started in Boston to fight hunger in the community.
David holds degrees from Carleton College, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and the Juilliard School. He also studied for a year at the Hochschule für Musik in Augsburg, Germany. David was a regional winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council competition and received a Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation, given annually to promising young American singers. He now lives in Natick, Massachusetts with his wife Erin Doherty (an architectural historian and preservation planner), their five-year-old daughter Fiona, and black lab Holly.
