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Born and raised in Rochester, N.Y., Dave graduated
from Churchville-Chili High School in 1975. He
was lead trumpet in both the orchestra and jazz bands
and was a classmate of renowned soprano Renee Fleming.
Dave graduated with honors in 1979 with a B.A. in English,
Philosophy, and Secondary Education from the State
University of New York at Geneseo. In college,
he served as principal trumpet of the wind and jazz
ensembles and studied with Eastman School of Music’s
Jeff Tyzik, now Principal Pops Conductor of the Rochester
Philharmonic. Dave taught high school English
in western New York for a year before becoming a classical
announcer and later Music Director of all-classical
public station WXXI-FM in Rochester, N.Y. After
more than ten years with WXXI, in 1990 Dave became
Music Director of WMFE-FM where he has been announcing
and pronouncing for fifteen years.
Dave is the proud dad
of two boys, David and Daniel: David
is a freshman at Stetson University; and Daniel is
in the tenth grade at Edgewater High School. Father
considers both sons to be his magnum opuses.
Dave's favorite composers are Bach, Beethoven, Brahms,
Debussy, Dvorak, Mozart, Ravel, and Shostakovich. His
favorite authors are Hardy, W. S. Merwin, Milton, Shakespeare,
Steinbeck, Tolstoy, James Wright, and Richard Yates.
Dave is passionate about live music making and attends
as many concerts as possible. He loves to play
chess, enjoys classic black-and-white movies, foreign
film (especially French and Polish), and cheers on
the Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres, and Orlando Magic. His
musical tastes are diverse, ranging from Americana
to Blues to Bluegrass to Classical to Motown to Reggae
to Rock to Soul. Among his favorite performers
are Rory Block, Sarah Chang, Chanticleer, the Emerson
String Quartet, Marvin Gaye, Valery Gergiev, Alison
Krauss, Yo-Yo Ma, Bob Marley, Alison Moorer, Murray
Perahia, the Supremes, and U2.
Dave eats musicology
(sans prunes) for breakfast, music theory (soy constituted)
for lunch, and literature (refined and unrefined) for
dinner. “Pop” psychology
is strictly prohibited from his diet, not even as an
in-between-meal snack. Instead, Dave prefers to metamucilize his
mind and body with “regular” doses of Einstein,
Gandhi, Kierkegaard, and Plato.
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David
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