David Stuntz

NCSSM faculty member since 2006.

MM Conducting, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

BS Music Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

David Stuntz did his undergraduate and graduate work in Music Education and Conducting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a student of Robert Porco. 

From 1982-1997 he was a one-person music department at Penn State’s campus in Erie.  Among his activities in Erie, he directed the Erie Philharmonic Chorus, took choirs to perform in Carnegie Hall, and designed and coordinated “Music At Noon,” an innovative approach to presenting classical music to college students.  For the past several years, he has been the choral director at the North Carolina School of Science & Mathematics, in Durham.  He has participated in workshops led by Robert Shaw, Alice Parker, Ward Swingle, Dale Warland, Paul Salamunovich, and John Rutter. 

For more than 35 years, he has been singing with and directing community choruses, including professional chamber ensembles.  This has included directing or co-directing choirs on invited tours of Israel, South Africa and Namibia.  Since 2003, he has coordinated and conducted the Community Masterworks Chorale, an enthusiastic collaborative ensemble that is multigenerational and ecumenical.

For more than 40 years, he has been intimately involved with music in the local church, serving as Music Director for more than 30 years, including, since 1998, at Blacknall Presbyterian Church in Durham.  The pastoral nature of music leadership has helped to shape his life.

He is a member of Music Educator's National Conference, the American Choral Director’s Association, and North Carolina Music Educators Association.