David Carpenter (b. 1972) has composed works in many different genres, from chamber and solo piano, to choral and orchestral. His music has been performed at the Aspen Music Festival and School (where he was a student in the Individual Studies Program in composition), the Oregon Bach Festival and the Brevard Music Center. As a composer with a special interest in vocal music, his solo cantata Juliet (with a text from Romeo and Juliet) was performed by the contemporary music ensemble Brave New Works, and his choral work Fredericksburg was premiered by baritone William Stone with the Temple University Concert Choir and Chamber Orchestra conducted by Alan Harler, as part of the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society’s 2007–2008 concert series. He has also collaborated with the Momenta Quartet (New York, NY), who in 2008 performed his String Quartet and featured it on their demo CD; bassoon virtuoso Pascal Gallois, who premiered his Three Myths for Solo Bassoon in 2008; and the Argento Ensemble (New York, NY) who performed his Sextet in 2010. His song “The Monogamous Man” was featured as part Network for New Music’s “Dialogues with Darwin” concert in Philadelphia, February 2010. His teachers include Herschel Garfein, Sydney Hodkinson, Kevin Puts and Robert Aldridge. Mr. Carpenter received degrees from Bates College (B.A., 1994) and the Peabody Conservatory (M.Mus., 1998). He is currently a doctoral student at the Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University, where he has studied with Richard Brodhead, Matthew Greenbaum and Maurice Wright.