David Fryling

For more than twenty-five years, Founding Conductor and Artistic Director Dr. David Fryling has engaged audiences, singers, and educators as a professional conductor, teacher, adjudicator, and clinician. His many years of work with students and choral educators on Long Island was honored with an induction into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame as the “Educator of Note” of 2014, and his artistic leadership on the podium has been recognized with two 1st Place American Prizes in Conducting, one each in the community chorus and college & university categories.

Since 2001, David has been Director of Choral Activities at Hofstra University, where he conducts the select Hofstra Chorale and Hofstra Chamber Choir, teaches choral conducting, and supervises choral music education student teachers in the field. From 2007 to 2013, Dr. Fryling spent his summers as coordinator of the Vocal Artists program at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan, where he was conductor and music director of the World Youth Honors Choir and Festival Choir & Orchestra. He has since served as a guest artist on the conducting faculty of the New York State Summer School of the Arts (NYSSSA) School of Choral Studies, as well as the Sitka Fine Arts Camp in Sitka, AK. David is a past president of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) Eastern Region, and currently serves as National President of the ACDA.