ABOUT

David Sprung grew up in New York City and attended Queens College where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Music. For graduate school he attended Princeton University, receiving a Master of Fine Arts in Music Composition. His composition teachers included Vittorio Rieti, Luigi Dallapiccola, Roger Sessions and Milton Babbitt.  Boris Schwarz and Seymour Lipkin were his teachers in conducting.

Mr. Sprung’s career has been divided between education, performance and composition. He has been a professor on the faculties of Wichita State University, Sonoma State University, and California State University, East Bay and is now Professor Emeritus of Music at that institution.

Currently living in Eugene, Oregon, he has been a well-known French horn performer, having played principal horn with a number of major and regional symphony orchestras, opera companies and festivals. Highlights have been his tenure as Co-Principal Horn with the San Francisco Opera orchestra and as Principal Horn with the Pittsburgh Symphony, San Francisco Ballet orchestra, Chautauqua Symphony and Opera and the Midsummer Mozart Festival.

He is former Music Director of the Flagler Symphonic Society in Palm Coast, Florida, where he conducted the Flagler Symphony and the Mozart Weekend.

As a composer, Sprung has written for orchestra, chamber music, solo piano, violin, and viola. Vocal compositions, include chamber chorus, and solo voice.

Compositions include (in no particular order):

Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano

Prelude for Piano

Fantasy Variations for Orchestra,

String Quartet

Song Cycle, “David’s Harp”, for Soprano and Piano

Fanfare for Five for brass quintet

Serendipities for chamber orchestra

Four Homages for Piano

Improvisation for solo violin

Soliloquio for violin and piano

Fantasy for solo viola

A Motet for 2012, chamber chorus,  (unauthorized text by Mitt Romney)

Toccata for four horns

Haiku for Tenor, Wind Quintet and Piano