David is a frequent guest soloist with area community bands and high schools. While studying at the University of Iowa, he performed as a guest soloist with all three of the School of Music Concert Bands. He was the first place winner in the Leonard Falcone International Baritone Horn Competition (Artist Division) and was granted a performance with the Michigan State Symphonic Band. He was also the Grand Prize Winner in the Des Moines Symphony Young Artist Competition and performed a Concerto with the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra. He has toured Europe with “The Iowa’s Ambassadors of Music” as a low brass instructor and euphonium soloist ten times.

Some of the honors David has received are: ISEA Excellence In Education Award; The NEA Foundation’s California Casualty Award for Excellence in Education; Iowa Bandmasters’ Karl King Distinguished Service Award and the Colts Drum and Bugle Corps Hall of Fame.