David Bousso, a native New Yorker, started to play the violin since the age of six. Mr. Bousso has established himself as a professional versatile conductor, orchestral, chamber and solo violinist and has performed in 29 countries across 4 continents. David recently made his conducting debut with the Union City Philharmonic Orchestra. He also performed and conducted Vivaldi's Four Seasons with The New York Chamber Virtuosi now known as the Leora Chamber Orchestra. As a conductor, in 2012 he worked with the National Music Festival Symphony orchestra, NYU Symphony Orchestra and New England Music Camp Faculty Orchestra. During the 2009-10 Season, David toured as the concertmaster and solo violinist of the Broadway musical Little House on the Prairie, which was performed in 25 cities throughout the U.S and Canada. While on the tour, he had volunteered for Habitat for Humanity and The Seeing Eye. David recently performed the Bach concerto for two violins with Philadelphia Orchestra member Paul Arnold and was also featured as a soloist and concertmaster with other orchestras such as Ensemble 212 and Bachanalia.David has also spent the last nine summers touring exclusively with Maestro Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. He has performed with members of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Berlin State Opera Orchestra at prestigious festivals such as the Salzburg, Lucerne and Proms festival in London. During that time, he has also collaborated with Maestro Pierre Boulez. David was recently awarded the Barenboim-Said Scholarship grant for excellence in music performance. The Orchestra toured of across the Americas, Asia, the Middle East and Europe in 2011, which included a complete cycle of the Beethoven Symphonies recorded by Decca classics in Cologne, Germany. He recently performed the cycle once again in New York City’s Carnegie Hall.
David holds a Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Music from Mannes College, The New School for Music. He resides in New York City.
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