David Moschler, tuba
Barbara K. Jackson assistant conductor
Robert B. Rucker tuba

David Moschler is entering his final year as a candidate for the Master of Arts degree in Conducting from UC Davis, where he studies with D. Kern Holoman and Jeffrey Thomas. Originally from North Carolina, Moschler earned bachelor's degrees in music and physics from UNC Chapel Hill in 2005, where he began studying conducting under Michael Votta and Tonu Kalam. 

In his first year at UC Davis, David stayed active as a conductor in many different settings, where he conducted performances with the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, UC Davis Concert Band, chamber ensembles, and several first performances with the Empyrean Ensemble. Equally at home with musical theater, David has conducted over fifty fully staged productions. This past summer David was principal conductor for the College Light Opera Company in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, opening and closing their 40th-anniversary season with performances of West Side Story, Crazy for You, and A Little Night Music. He was also music director for the Davis Summer Symphony, where he recorded the original score to a feature-length documentary film, A World of Grazing, composed by Andy Tan.

In addition to working as assistant conductor for the UCDSO this year, Moschler is the assistant conductor for the University Chorus, as well as guest conductor and production manager of the Empyrean Ensemble. In the spring he will be musical director for a joint collaboration between the Departments of Music and Theatre & Dance for a fully staged production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, which he plans to incorporate into his master's thesis.

 e-mail: dcmoschler@ucdavis.edu