David Wolfson is a composer, music director, arranger, pianist and copyist who has lived in New York City since 1986.

Mr. Wolfson studied composition with Eugene O'Brien and John Rinehart at the Cleveland Institute of Music, graduating with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1985. In that same year he was awarded the first annual Darius Milhaud Award by the Darius Milhaud Society and won the Bascom Little Musical Theatre Composition Competition for his short opera, Rainwait. While in Cleveland, Mr. Wolfson spent four years as assistant musical director for the Cleveland Play House and taught on the faculty of the Play House Youtheatre.

He is the composer of Story Salad, a series of stage revues for children, which was produced for thirteen consecutive years by Maximillion Productions, and one year by Story Salad Productions, Inc. Story Salad was seen by well over a million children, teachers and parents. He supplied incidental music for Merry Enterprises Theatre’s production of Dammit, Shakespeare, the Actors/Playwrights Lab’s premiere production of Richard Nash’s The Loss of D-Natural, and the Queens Theatre in the Park production of Ronald Gabriel Paolillo’s The Lost Boy. The Don Quijote Experimental Children's Theatre's Number 21, for which Mr. Wolfson wrote music and lyrics, was produced in 1989 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and his songs for Riverside Amusement Park’s big-headed-costumed-character show Country Critter Jamboree were played 510 times over the course of one summer there.

From 1989-1992, Mr. Wolfson was resident composer and music director of EM/R Dance Co., a choreographer’s collective. From 1993-1996, he was co-artistic director (with choreographer Lynn Wichern) of Wichern/Wolfson dance & music, a company dedicated to performances involving both dance and live music; their final collaboration was Breath: The Passionate Life and Extraordinary Language of Emily Dickinson, an evening-length music-theatre work which they produced at St. Mark’s Church in New York City in 1996. In connection with the company, Mr. Wolfson received several grants from Meet The Composer and a grant from the Music Program of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Mr. Wolfson’s concert works have been performed by such diverse forces as Synchronia, the Sirius String Quartet and the Bassoon Quartet of the Cleveland Orchestra, as well as on faculty recitals at Baldwin-Wallace Convservatory, Cleveland State University and the Cleveland Music School Settlement. In 2002, the Symphonic Workshop of the 92nd St. Y (conducted by John Yaffé) and soprano Juliana Janes-Yaffé read his Songs of Love and Distance, a song cycle for soprano and chamber orchestra.

Milica’s music has been performed in numerous venues across her native Serbia, the U.S, and all over the world. She has aired on radio stations in Switzerland, Romania, The Netherlands, USA, Russia, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Macedonia, Great Britain, Spain, and Italy. Milica’s music has been released on Bridge, Electroshock Records and The New Sound record labels, and she is currently working on a solo CD (record label TBA).

Most recently, The Rain It Raineth Every Day and A Ball Of Gold, both for mixed chorus, were premiered by the New York Theatrical Community Chorus. his theatrical song cycle Dreamhouse, based on the poetry of Barbara DeCesare, premiered in 2005 in New York City as part of the Sixth Annual Midtown International Theatre Festival. “Song For An Accident” from Dreamhouse was recorded by Tamra Hayden on her CD A Day At The Fair. Other recent compositions include the lullaby “Like Water” (recorded by Karen Jolicoeur on her CD The Dream That You Wish) and four songs for Diane Menges’ recital program The Jesus Project.

Since 2005, he has been the Associate Artistic Director and Music Director of Experience Vocal Dance Company (EVDC). Mr. Wolfson’s compositions for EVDC have been performed at Symposion "Tanz und Musiktheater" in Hannover, Germany, and in New York at The Field’s Fielday, New Dance Group’s The Exchange, Movement Research’s Open Performance, and The Composer’s Voice series at Jan Hus Church.

Milica’s love of collaborations resulted in many relationships, such as the ongoing one with Charlotte Griffin, a noted trio D’Divaz and VisionIntoArt .

Mr Wolfson’s music has been called “brilliant” by the Cleveland Plain Dealer; the New York Times referred to it as “musically inventive” and “theatrically forceful.”

For more information visit: www.davidwolfsonmusic.net