David Pell has a doctorate in music from the University of Toronto where he studied the relationship between Motor Learning and Music in the groundbreaking Music and Health Science Research Collaboratory. He also earned a M.Mus from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he studied Musicology and trombone with Mark Lawrence and Paul Welcomer.

 

David currently serves on faculty at the University of Toronto, the Glenn Gould Professional School of the Royal Conservatory of Music, and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada.

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He is Artistic Director of the renowned Hannaford Street Silver Band and Principal Trombonist of the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra. He has been a member of the Winnipeg Symphony, the Victoria Symphony, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Orchestra, Toronto’s Esprit Orchestra and performs regularly on trombone, bass trumpet and euphonium with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, Canadian Opera Company. He has also performed with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, the Calgary Philharmonic, the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, the Thunder Bay Symphony, and with the Stockholm Chamber Brass.

 

David is a member of two other treasures of Canadian brass music, the True North Brass Quintet, and the Canadian National Brass Project.

 

David appears on many recordings including the Canadian Brass recording Brahms on Brass, as Principal Trombone on The National Arts Centre Orchestra's Life Reflected, playing Euphonium on the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s recording of Holst’s The Planets, Bass Trumpet on the TSO’s recording of the Rite Of Spring, and recordings by the Canadian National Brass Project, the Hannaford Band and True North Brass. He was Bass Trumpet soloist in the Canadian Opera Company’s acclaimed Ring Cycle and has played on many jingles and soundtracks. Over the years, he's toured with the musicals Les Mis, Wicked, Evita, Annie Get Your Gun, Chicago, Showboat, Ragtime, and many others.