M.M., Holy Names College

David J. Xiques is currently Assistant Professor of Music at San Francisco State University where he is professor of Ear Training and Musicianship, the conductor of the University Chorus, and teaches private voice instruction. He is also on the faculty of New York University’s Kodaly Summer Certification Program. As a professional singer, he is a member of the Grammy Award winning San Francisco Symphony Chorus where he also serves as Assistant Chorus Director. Mr Xiques’ work as a chorus director can be heard in a recording of Printemps on the CD Debussy Rediscovered, Premier Orchestral Recordings, released in 2000 under the Arabesque label. He worked closely with conductor Emil de Cou, music director of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, in recreating Debussy’s original version of Printemps, by reconstructing this composition and putting back in the score Debussy’s original intent, a wordless treble chorus. Until this time Printemps has been only heard as an orchestral version.

Mr. Xiques earned his MM in Music Education with Kodaly Emphasis degree from Holy Names College in Oakland, CA where he was also a member of the faculty, and BS in Music Education from Millersville University in Millersville, PA. He has studied ear training and musicianship extensively with Erzsebet Hegyi of the Liszt Academy in Budapest, and conducting with Vance George of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, as well as faculty members of the 1995 Chorus America faculty at Saranac Lake, NY: Gregg Smith, Elmer Isler, and Dennis Keene.