David See

Since returning to New York City from Tennessee in 2014, David See has enjoyed a varied career as collaborative pianist, organist, choral singer, teacher and composer. He sings bass/baritone in the Choral Composer/Conductor Collective (“C4”), which has premiered several of his original compositions.  His experience as choral singer includes the Oberlin College Choir, the St. Bartholomew Church choir, the show choir Potpourri Singers and the Collegium Musicum at East Tennessee State University.    

Besides playing and teaching at BDC, he is a staff pianist for Mannes School of Music at the New School and a faculty member of Bettina Sheppard’s Academy of Vocal Arts (SAVA). He has been collaborative pianist for Apotheosis Opera, Tapestry Choir and Highbridge Voices. During his years in Tennessee, he was collaborative pianist at Middle Tennessee State University accompanying student and faculty recitals as well as assistant directing and performing in Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods and Guys and Dolls; was for many years principal keyboardist and choral pianist with Symphony of the Mountains (Kingsport TN). He transcribed and arranged music in a broad spectrum of genres for four of the annual Fame! show of The Dance Company (Johnson City TN), directing and playing in the stage band. He was composer and performer for eighteen live productions of “Don’t Touch That Dial Radio Theater” on radio station WETS-FM. 

Other shows that David has assistant directed, rehearsed and/or performed in include Peter Pan (Theater Bristol), the revue Some Enchanted Evening, and Carousel (Johnson City Community Theater), Chicago (convention show in NYC), Ruddigore (New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players), Li’l Abner (The Heights Players, assistant musical director), Suburban Apocolypse (Colonnades Theater), and Gypsy, Best Little Whorehouse, and The Sound of Music (Town and Country Playhouse). He holds a B.M. degree in Music Composition from Oberlin Conservatory.