David Dusing Bio

David Düsing has a varied career as a singer, conductor and composer.

He has performed in concerts, cabaret and Broadway shows throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. In the classical field he has sung as soloist under the batons of Robert Shaw (Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Haydn’s Creation), Pierre Boulez (Stravinsky’s Renard), Klaus Tennstedt (Orff’s Carmina Burana), Michael Tilson Thomas and Gunther Schuller. In the folk and pop fields he has sung with or under the direction of Robert De Cormier, Harry Belafonte, Norman Luboff, Joanna Gleason, Pearl Bailey, Jean Ritchie, Michael Crawford, Oscar Brand, John Raitt, Morton Gould and Garrison Keillor, among others. Additional credits include radio, television, the occasional commercial and more than 130 recordings.

Mr. Düsing held the position of Associate Conductor of Choruses at New England Conservatory in Boston, where he also taught conducting. He served as chorusmaster for Mozart opera productions directed by Peter Sellars and has been conductor of the Norman Luboff Choir. His group, the Dusing Singers, can be heard on Rags and Riches, The Cool of the Day and on the soundtrack of the film Dead Man Walking. For over a decade he has served as Co-Director/Music Director in partnership with Director/Choreographer Nat Horne for Dayton, Ohio’s critically acclaimed Muse Machine Musicals and Revues.

As composer and arranger Mr. Düsing has over forty works in print. He contributed arrangements to three holiday recordings by the Robert De Cormier Singers: A Victorian Christmas, Christmas Eve, and Children Go Where I Send Thee. With Mr. De Cormier he also arranged music for an album of early 20th-century popular music, Oh! You Beautiful Doll. His works are also heard on recordings by The New York Choral Society, Pamela Warrick-Smith’s Work, Fight and Pray and four compact discs with The Muse Machine: The Muse Machine on Broadway, Tonight at Eight, Heart & Music and The Memory Of All That.

Mr. Düsing regularly appears in a song program with composer/satirist Peter Schickele. In addition, with Mr. Schickele’s alter ego, P.D.Q. Bach, and soprano Michèle Eaton, he performs with orchestras throughout the country. He also appears with Mr. Schickele and his wife, poet Susan Sindall, in The Condition of My Heart, a program about the joys and trials of a long marriage.

Contact David Düsing at david@daviddusing.com