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David Stern
Dr. David Stern is an award winning composer and music theorist. He holds a Ph.D. in music theory from The Graduate Center of CUNY and has taught music theory at various colleges including Queens College, CUNY, The Mannes College of Music, Ball State University, University of North Texas and Claremont Colleges. He has worked for major clients in the Los Angeles music world, including The Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has had orchestral compositions performed around the United States. He specializes in composing in a neo-tonal style that synthesizes aspects of traditional harmony and form with more contemporary elements. This attractive style aims to be spiritually uplifting and speaks readily to performers and audiences. Dr. Stern has won the composition competition hosted by the Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra on two occasions. The first was with the spiritually themed tone poem for chamber orchestra The Golden Thread (premiered 2018) and more recently with the nature-inspired tone poem The San Gabriel Mountains (premiered 2023). His work for narrator and orchestra, Lincoln Speaks of Liberty uses inspired texts by Lincoln and was premiered in 2018 by The Muscatine Symphony Orchestra conducted by Brian Dollinger, with world-class Lincoln reenactor Fritz Klein playing the role of Lincoln, and subsequently by the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra conducted by David Amos with San Diego TV personality Dave Scott narrating the Lincoln texts. Two orchestral works, Da Vinci’s Wings of Flight and Da Vinci’s Musical Riddle were premiered by The New Haven Symphony in 2006. We Stand for Freedom: In Memoriam, September 11th, 2001 has already received several performances around the U.S. Thoreau Contemplates Eternity at Walden Pond has been performed at Ball State University, by The Muscatine Symphony Orchestra, and by The Utah Philharmonia.
