He is a violinist, contractor,
producer and composer raised in Winter Haven, Florida, with his musical
family. Starting his
interest in music when he was five years old, he began by studying the piano
and followed four years later by starting to learning the violin.This was obviously the way to go
for him and as a teenager he received a scholarship to study violin at the
Florida State University.Venturing out into his career as a professional musician when he was
19 years old he began as a classical violinist, which saw him attaining the
position of concertmaster at the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. He has since held the same
position with the Alcott Chamber Orchestra, Festival of American
Music Chamber Orchestra and the Central Florida Camerata. Taking an
active interest in other genres of music, that range from rock to
contemporary Christian music, he began playing as a session musician
and member of Nashville String Machine from 1983 and has since
appeared with artists that include A-ha, Alabama , Backstreet Boys, Moe Bandy, Clint
Black, Garth Brooks, Floyd Cramer, Billie Ray Cyrus, Dixie
Chicks, The Charlie Daniels Band, Craig David, Craig
Duncan, Crystal Gayle, Nanci
Griffith, Faith Hill, Brenda Lee, Melissa Manchester, The
Mavericks, Mac
McAnally, Ronnie Milsap, Mickey Newbury, The Oak Ridge Boys, Mark
O'Connor, Donny Osmond, Dolly
Parton, Bobby Purify, LeAnn Rimes, The Statler Brothers, Cat
Stevens, Ray Stevens, Pam
Tillis
, Travis Tritt, Tanya
Tucker, Andy Williams, Don Williams, Trisha Yearwood and many more.He became a member of the A Strings,
was a co-founder of Orchestra Nasvhille (NCO) in 1990 and formed his own
David Davidson & The Praise Ensemble in 1993, also recording albums
with each of them.The albums
he has appeared on are countless and include his own Celtic Fantasy,
Prelude to Joy, Phantom of Broadway and Silver Screen Classics
and also Home for Christmas with the A Strings, Everyday I Love
You, Pt. 1 by Boyzone, Beach House on the Moon by Jimmy
Buffett,
Boy in Me by Glen
Campbell, Praise Ensemble with David Davison
& The Praise Ensemble, Whatever and Ever Amen by Ben Folds Five,
Takes a Little Time by Amy Grant, Blue Obsession by Michael
McDonald, Christmas by Don McLean, Conversations in Silence by
the NCO (which he also co-produced), Back with a Heart by Olivia
Newton John, Room for Squares by John Mayer, Undiscovered by
James Morrison, Face the Promise by Bob
Seger , The Rising by
Bruce Springsteen, Eye to the Telescope by K.T. Tunstall, Prairie Wind by Neil Young, and
the soundtrack of Amazing Grace,Dick, Joshua, Jimmy Neutron, Boy
Genius, Once in the Life, Second Chance and Walk to Remember to
name just a very small selection. As a composer his works are many and
include "Suite for Djembe & Strings" and the co-written "Overture for
Guitar and Strings", which were both premiered by the Orchestra Nashville
in 1990 and 1998 respectively.
