Collection: David Duke

David Gordon Duke was born in Vancouver and has degrees in musicology from the University of British Columbia, the University of North Carolina, and the University of Victoria.  He studied composition privately with Jean Coulthard, and, at the Banff Centre, Violet Archer.
 
He has taught academic music subjects at a number of Vancouver post-secondary institutions and is a past Head of the School of Music at Vancouver Community College and Dean of the Faculty of Language, Literature, and Performing Arts at Douglas College. He has also written extensively about Canadian music and composers and has contributed essays and music criticism to The Vancouver Sun, Early Music America, and Classical Voice North America. With William Bruneau he is a co-author of Jean Coulthard: a life in music, published by Ronsdale Press.
 
Perhaps best known for his educational music, his work has been published by Waterloo Music, Frederick Harris Music, and the Canadian National Conservatory of Music. He has also composed concert music for solo instruments, voices, chamber ensembles, and orchestra.

He is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre.