DAVID KEEZING

ABOUT DAVID

David has experience performing in a variety of contexts, from solo classical guitar concerts throughout the eastern United States; guitar ensemble performances, including a performance of  Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint in Kilbourn Hall for the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival; chamber music; rock groups; jazz and jazz fusion; reggae; and renaissance lute in the continuo section of Eastman’s Collegium Musicum. David gigs in and around Philadelphia, where he lives and collaborates with his wife, April, who is a singer-songwriter. 

David has 10 years of teaching experience working with students in a variety of styles and many different backgrounds and levels. As a teacher, he currently teaches for the Meridee Winters School of Music in Ardmore, PA, and privately over Zoom. David has also taught guitar classes and coached rock bands and ensembles at Appel Farm Arts Camp in Elmer, NJ, where he was the director of the Music Department for several years.

David received his B.M. and M.M. in guitar performance at the Eastman School of Music, studying under guitarist and pedagogue Nicholas Goluses. David has also studied jazz guitar under Bob Sneider at Eastman and Rich Goldstein at The Hartt School, performance practice and lute under Paul O’Dette, and has studied contemporary guitar techniques under Dominic Frasca at The Monkey in NYC.

David plays guitars by American luthier Alan Chapman.