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3 unusual facts about David Conte


David Conte

Conte has received commissions from Chanticleer, the Golden Gate Men's Chorus, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus, the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, the Dayton Philharmonic, the Oakland-East Bay Symphony, and the Stockton Symphony.

Reading Choral Society

More recently, the Society has commissioned music from Daniel Pinkham, David Conte, Jennifer Higdon, Robert Page, Jayson Rotnak, and for the 2004-2005 season, Pennsylvania composer Robert Maggio.

Ubi caritas

More recent versions of the hymn for choir have been composed by David Conte, and University of Aberdeen professor Paul Mealor.


Karel Husa

Composers who studied with Mr. Husa include Steven Stucky, Christopher Rouse, John S. Hilliard, David Conte, and Byron Adams.

Steven Stucky

Among his many prominent composition students are Alfred Cohen, Joseph Phibbs, Marc Mellits, Robert Paterson, David Conte, Thomas C. Duffy, Yotam Haber James Matheson, Steven Burke, Xi Wang, Spencer Topel, Diego Vega, Fang Man, Anna Weesner, Hannah Lash, Andrew Waggoner, Sean Shepherd, Yotam Haber, Chris Arrell, Jesse Jones, Eric Nathan, and many others.

Tantum Ergo

The basic text has been set by numerous composers from the Renaissance (Palestrina), the Romantic period (Faure, Franz Schubert), and contemporary composers (David Conte).


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