David Gompper

David Gompper (b. 1954) is an American composer, pianist, and conductor, professor of composition and director of the Center for New Music at the [l=University of Iowa], recipient of the [l=American Academy Of Arts And Letters] Award (2009). He studied at the [l=Royal College of Music, London] with composer [a=Humphrey Searle] and pianist [a=Phyllis Sellick] and received a Ph.D. degree from [l=The University of Michigan].

Before joining Iowa faculty in 1991, he had been teaching at the University of Texas at Arlington, as well as abroad in Nigeria. In 2002, Gompper visited Russia as a Fulbright Scholar, where he spent a year teaching, performing and conducting at the [l=Moscow Conservatory]. David actively collaborates with a violinist [a=Wolfgang David] from Vienna: they took Gompper's [i]Echoes[/i] for violin and piano on a 12-concert tour throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe in 2007, went with [i]Ikon[/i] on a second American-European tour with 14 stops, and participated together in numerous other projects. His music was performed at many prestigious venues around the world, such as [l=Carnegie Hall] in New York, [l=Wigmore Hall] in London, and [l=ZKM | Institut für Musik und Akustik] in Karlsruhe, Germany.