David Dally is conductor of the Monterey Peninsula College Orchestra and has conducted
Monterey Bay Symphony Pops Concerts and the Central Coast Section Middle School and
High School Honor Orchestras. He is the first violinist and founder of the Monterey
String Quartet and is Concertmaster of Ensemble Monterey and I Cantori di Carmel and
has been Concertmaster of the Monterey Bay Symphony, Hidden Valley Operas, Monterey
Opera and played first violin with San Jose and Monterey County Symphonies. David
coached chamber music at the Humboldt State University Chamber Music Workshops and
Grand Pacific Chamber Music Workshops. He has participated in the Aspen Music Festival,
Music Academy of the West, Tanglewood Music Festival and the San Luis Obispo Mozart
Festival. David has played in orchestras and attended workshops led by such great
conductors as Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Andre Previn, Leon Barzin and Kurt Masur.
He graduated ‘with Distinction’ from U.C. Berkeley in Music where he studied conducting
with Michael Senturia and James Cunningham and violin with Felix Khuner and Virginia
Baker. He has received the Leonard Bernstein Fellowship, the Alfred Hertz Memorial
Fellowship and the James Albert King Scholarship for Music.
David also plays violin and trumpet with Mike Marotta Jr. in the Marotta Band and
the Monterey International Trio. They have four CDs of international music and have
performed for the Accordion Clubs of San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Santa Barbara.
