STEVENSON, DAVID (b. 1952)

David Stevenson (born 1952, Maine, USA), when in high school, his "musical love" was playing the trumpet, but he was also very interested in the creation of music, not the "recreation," as in interpreting musical ideas that were already suggested by others, but the "creation of music" as in composing and arranging. However, there was no music theory course offered in the school, and without that help and guidance, his efforts were not particularly satisfying. He went to college to major on the trumpet, but in taking the obligatory music theory classes, he found that for which he had been searching—the keys to harmony and the relationships of one part to another, in short, the way that music works.

 

He has composed music for his choirs—high school choirs, adult community choruses, and university level choral ensembles. That is the true love of music—creating for specific ensembles for specific moments. It is at the suggestion of colleagues that some of these creations are now available to the public.

 

Stevenson has been a music educator in public schools in Maine for the past forty-one years: thirty years as teacher (RSU3) of choral arts, music theory, fine arts department chairperson, and director of the Mount View Chamber Singers, a twenty voice ensemble that tours extensively, both stateside and abroad. Prior to his tenure at RSU3, he served as music educator/choral conductor in the Boothbay Region School Unit from 1981-1986, an elementary music educator in the Searsport School District from 1976-1980, and as the choral director at the Hinckley School from 1974-1976.

 

He holds degrees of Bachelor of Science in Education (University of Maine - 1974), Master of Music – Choral Conducting (University of Maine – 1992), and Doctor of Musical Arts (Boston University – 2007).