June 8-11, 2024 | Composition Faculty at Sunset ChamberFest
Derek will work with students in Sunset ChamberFest’s 2024 Young Composers Workshop in Los Angeles, CA. More info here.
May 15, 2024 | A Besere Velt at Fenway
Derek conducts A Besere Velt in a performance of the National Anthem for Jewish Heritage Night at Fenway. More info here.
May 8, 2024 | Conducting A Besere Velt Concert
Derek conducts ABV at the Cambridge Holocaust Memorial.
May 7, 2024 | Lecturer (virtual) at Sorbonne Université
Derek is an invited lecturer at Sorbonne Université (Paris, France), presenting “My life and the Yiddish Musical World: Contemporary Concert Music, Folk Song, and the Yiddish Choral Tradition”.
May 6, 2024 | Conducting A Besere Velt Concert
Derek conducts ABV at the Auschwitz Exhibit at The Castle at Park Plaza.
May 4, 2024 | A Besere Velt Concert
Derek conducts Mayday! May Day! a program of songs of hope in times of struggle, featuring Judy Bressler and Hankus Netsky. More info here.
March 23, 2024 | New Gallery Concert Series in Cambridge, MA
New Gallery Concert Series presents my Duet for Violin and Viola at Longy School of Music. More info here.
December 23-28, 2023 | Conducting Yiddish New York chorus
Invited faculty for Yiddish New York, directing and arranging works for the festival's chorus. More info here.
September 23, 2023 | ‘A Besere Velt’ Concert with Frank London
Derek conducts A Besere Velt in a program of choral music with klezmer trumpeter Frank London. More info here.
June 10, 2023 | A Besere Velt Concert at MIT
Derek directs A Besere Velt in their annual Spring concert with guest artist Daniel Kahn in Kresge Auditorium. More info coming soon.
April 16, 2023 | String Quartet No. 4 in West Bloomfield, MI
Verona Quartet performs String Quartet No. 4 "Kaddish" at Temple Israel as a part of the Schmier Concert Series. More info here.
March 18, 2023 | Portrait Concert at MIT
Please join me for my portrait concert, presented by the Boston Festival for New Jewish Music in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium. Tickets here.
October 26, 2022 | Singing Yiddish Folksongs
In the season opener of the Boston Festival for New Jewish Music, Derek sings a couple of Yiddish folksongs. More info soon.
October 2, 2022 | A Besere Velt Concert in Fenway
Derek leads A Besere Velt in "Be the Change" a joyful, stirring program of new and classic Yiddish songs from haunting melodies to workers’ anthems that move us towards the dream of peace, freedom, and a better world for all. More info here.
August 4, 2022 | Clarinet Quintet in Nantucket, MA
Nicholas Davies and the Del Sol String Quartet perform the Clarinet Quintet at the Nantucket Community Music Center as a part of The Rossini Club. More info here.
August 3, 2022 | Clarinet Quintet premiere in Nantucket, MA
Nicholas Davies and the Del Sol String Quartet premiere the Clarinet Quintet at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, presented by The Rossini Club. More info here.
June 18, 2022 | Conducting A Besere Velt
I will conduct the 'A Besere Velt' choir in their program "Singing For Peace and Freedom" with guest artists Polina Shepherd and Lorin Sklamberg at the Eliot Church, Newton, MA. More info here.
May 26, 2022 | Four Yiddish Folksongs at YIVO
A performance of Four Yiddish Folksongs will conclude the conference in their closing concert. More info here.
February 17, 2022 | Lecture at Boston College
In Invited Talks, presented by the Literature and Philosophy Departments, Derek presents his lecture "Commedia Del' Arte: Class and Death in Mozart's Don Giovanni".
January 19, 2022 | Four Yiddish Folksongs at the Boston Synagogue
"Four Yiddish Folksongs - פֿיר ייִדישע פֿאָלקסלידער" receives it's in-person premiere at the Boston Festival for New Jewish Music. Livestream will be available. Megan Jones, soprano; Yasmin Valenzuela, clarinet; Abigale Reisman, violin; and Inês Andrade, piano. More info here.
April 21, 2021 | Four Yiddish Folksongs at Bard Conservatory of Music
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents Megan Jones, Collin Lewis, Blanche Darr, and Sung-Soo Cho in the premiere of Four Yiddish Folksongs. More info here.
June 16, 2019 | Duet for Violin and Viola in Hollywood, CA
Nicole Sauder & Jesse Morrison premiere Duet for Violin and Viola at Sunset ChamberFest, St. Thomas the Apostle. More info.
June 1, 2019 | Et in Bergamo Ego at Walt Disney Concert Hall
The Sakura Cello Quintet performs in the Blue Ribbon Garden at 8pm in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Noon to Midnight Festival. More info here.
May 13, 2019 | String Quartet No. 1 in San Francisco
Students at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music perform String Quartet No. 1 in the SFCM Concert Hall.
May 2, 2019 | Scenes from Goya in San Francisco
A Hoefer Prize commission, Scenes from Goya was premiered by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music New Music Ensemble under the direction of Nicole Paiement. More info.
June 17, 2017 | Et in bergamo ego in Los Angeles, CA
The Sakura Cello Quintet premieres Et in bergamo ego at Sunset ChamberFest. More info.
December 7, 2015 | DMA recital at NEC
Featuring Tre Scherzi, Viola Sonata, Medications on Virginity, As Adam Early in the Morning, Saraband with a Young Adam, and his String Quartet No. 1.
October 20, 2015 | Saraband with a Young Adam in Boston, MA
Performed on New England Conservatory's Tuesday Night New Music.
May 6, 2015 | String Quartet No. 1 in Boston, MA
Presented in Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA and performed by Li-Mei Liang, Ken Hamao, Daniel Urbanowitz, Joseph Gotoff.
October 17, 2014 | String Quartet No. 1 in Boston, MA
Performed by Boston Young Composers Ensemble (aka Hub New Music) at Galatea Fine Art, Boston, MA.
June 6, 2014 | String Quartet No. 1 in Hollywood, CA
Sunset ChamberFest returns to St. Thomas the Apostle Hollywood to play the west coast premiere of String Quartet No. 1. More info here.
June 12, 2011 | Ophelia and Fugue from Tre Scherzi per Trio d’Archi in Cambridge, MA
Composers Derek David and Osnat Netzer present Meshugene Divas, a night of works by the composers at Club Oberon. More info here.
May 15, 2011 | String Quartet No. 1 in Boston, MA
Presented by New England Conservatory's Composer Series, NEC students perform String Quartet No. 1. More info here.
April 15, 2010 | Fugue from Tre Scherzi per trio d'archi in Jamaica Plain, MA
Presented in Boston New Music Initiative's inaugural concert series at St. John’s Episcopal Church.
April 21, 2009 | Le Grand Estampie Royal in Boston, MA
Performed live at the New England Conservatory of Music on April, 21, 2009. More info here.
