Distinguished Concerts International - New York

David B. Gardner (DMA, The University of Arizona) is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Choirs at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas.  He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors and is active nationally as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator.

He has performed as a vocal soloist, conductor, and chorus member with Wichita Grand Opera, and has prepared choruses for the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, Wichita Grand Opera, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, and The University of Arizona Symphony.  In March of 2008 he led the Southwestern College choirs in a series of highly acclaimed concerts across Italy.  The tour culminated in a performance during Easter Sunday Mass at the Basilica of St. Mark in Venice. Dr. Gardner's Carnegie Hall conducting debut was in March of 2005.

Other past projects include performing in concert and recording with Linda Ronstadt (A Merry Little Christmas, Elektra Records), conducting the world premier performances of "Send Down the Rain" by New York composer Andrew Teirstein, and organizing and conducting 350 singers and instrumentalists in a memorial performance of the Mozart Requiem on September 11, 2002. 

David Gardner's principal conducting mentors have been Maurice Skones and Bruce Chamberlain.  In 2002, he was selected as one of 14 international conductors to lead the Grammy Award winning Oregon Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra under the tutelage of Maestro Helmuth Rilling in the Oregon Bach Festival Masterclass in Conducting.  In addition to his academic work, Dr. Gardner has spent more than two decades in music ministry, serving churches of various denominations.  He lives in Winfield with his wife and four daughters.

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