Biography
Conductor, violinist, and educator, David Tedford is passionate about orchestral music. He enjoys sharing his love of the art form with audiences of all ages and experience levels and seeks to engage musicians and audience members through well-crafted performances.
Winner of the 2019 International Conductors Workshop & Competition and third place winner of the Los Angeles Conducting Competition, Tedford currently holds positions of Conductor of the Bloomsburg University Community Orchestra, Mansfield University Symphony Orchestra, and the Williamsport Youth Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he is Assistant Professor of Music at Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania at the Bloomsburg and Mansfield campuses in Northeast Pennsylvania.
He enjoys exploring the newest trends in music, believing that the key to future generations of concert-goers is to perform music of contemporary society. His research interests include programming of contemporary music in the collegiate setting and is a proponent of promoting compositions by living composers. Dedicated to promoting the performance of newly discovered music and serving arts communities beyond the podium, Tedford is co-founder and contributor to The Adore Project (https://theadoreproject.org/), which is a resource for promoting composers of underrepresented demographics. He is also involved with the Orchestra division of And We Were Heard (https://www.andwewereheard.org/), another organization helping to promote orchestra music written by underrepresented demographics. Additionally, Tedford serves on the board of directors of the Harmony Arts Foundation in Bloomsburg, PA, a non-profit organization that is oriented towards the advancement of music education through lessons for all ages.
An avid educator, he has been a guest conductor for numerous high school orchestra festivals and workshops throughout the east coast and Midwest. He has also initiated multiple performing outlets for students at the Bloomsburg University campus, including a Concerto Competition, chamber music courses, and masterclasses of visiting guest artists. He also coordinated multiple educational outreach initiatives, such as Stringposium, an educational outreach for area string players, and multiple pre-audition workshops for local high school musicians.
Tedford holds degrees from Grove City College, Ohio University, and the University of Iowa. He has worked with conductors such as Steven Huang, William LaRue Jones, Kenneth Kiesler, Stuart Malina, Dwight Oltman, Robert Page, Markand Thakar, Neil Thomson, and Scott Weiss.
Winner of the 2019 International Conductors Workshop & Competition and third place winner of the Los Angeles Conducting Competition, Tedford currently holds positions of Conductor of the Bloomsburg University Community Orchestra, Mansfield University Symphony Orchestra, and the Williamsport Youth Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he is Assistant Professor of Music at Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania at the Bloomsburg and Mansfield campuses in Northeast Pennsylvania.
He enjoys exploring the newest trends in music, believing that the key to future generations of concert-goers is to perform music of contemporary society. His research interests include programming of contemporary music in the collegiate setting and is a proponent of promoting compositions by living composers. Dedicated to promoting the performance of newly discovered music and serving arts communities beyond the podium, Tedford is co-founder and contributor to The Adore Project (https://theadoreproject.org/), which is a resource for promoting composers of underrepresented demographics. He is also involved with the Orchestra division of And We Were Heard (https://www.andwewereheard.org/), another organization helping to promote orchestra music written by underrepresented demographics. Additionally, Tedford serves on the board of directors of the Harmony Arts Foundation in Bloomsburg, PA, a non-profit organization that is oriented towards the advancement of music education through lessons for all ages.
An avid educator, he has been a guest conductor for numerous high school orchestra festivals and workshops throughout the east coast and Midwest. He has also initiated multiple performing outlets for students at the Bloomsburg University campus, including a Concerto Competition, chamber music courses, and masterclasses of visiting guest artists. He also coordinated multiple educational outreach initiatives, such as Stringposium, an educational outreach for area string players, and multiple pre-audition workshops for local high school musicians.
Tedford holds degrees from Grove City College, Ohio University, and the University of Iowa. He has worked with conductors such as Steven Huang, William LaRue Jones, Kenneth Kiesler, Stuart Malina, Dwight Oltman, Robert Page, Markand Thakar, Neil Thomson, and Scott Weiss.
