David Giardiniere is a native of Pennsylvania who has been a teacher, conductor, soloist, clinician, adjudicator, composer and arranger.  Over a 20-year teaching career, his choral and instrumental groups performed throughout the eastern United States, Canada and in Vienna, Austria.  A graduate of West Chester University, Northwestern University and New York University, he has also received a diploma for studies done in Siena, Italy.  In 1998, he was chosen to appear in Who’s Who among American Teachers and was guest conductor for the ACSI Northeast Youth Chorale at Carnegie Hall, NY.  Living outside Philadelphia with his wife and three children, he is currently the head of the Product Evaluation Department at J.W. Pepper & Son, the Director of Music at Faith Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, DE.  A member of ASCAP, he has more than 50 published compositions, some of which have received recognition from the John Ness Beck Foundation and ASCAP annual awards.