Artistic Director
David St. George is the co-founder of Discovery Ensemble. He is a pianist, musicologist and frequent writer on musical subjects. For many years he has worked as Musical Advisor to the Boston Philharmonic and has collaborated with conductor Benjamin Zander on countless musical projects here and abroad. He has also been producer for all of Zander’s recordings of Beethoven, Mahler and Bruckner on the Telarc label.
Over the years he has written prolifically on many musical subjects, from the music of Josquin to that of John Harbison and has written innumerable program notes for the New York Philharmonic and Los Angeles Philharmonic, in addition to the Boston Philharmonic. During the late ’70s, he was assistant classical music critic for the Boston Globe. As a musicologist he has taught music history and theory at Brandeis University, and has been involved in several scholarly musical editions, most notably the complete edition of the music of Heinrich Schütz.
In 1988, he formed his own company, Critic’s Choice Compact Discs, which published an extensive magazine in which he reviewed new recordings four times a year and made every classical CD currently in print anywhere in the world available to American music lovers by mail order.
David studied piano for many years with Leonard Shure, who played a particularly formative role in his musical development. He did his undergraduate and post-graduate work at Brandeis University, and for three years was a scholarship student at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Munich, where he studied piano, composition and conducting, the latter under Karl Richter.
