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BEHOLD, THE LORD
David Dunford Piano
DAVID DUNFORD is the Director of the Pioneer School of Music at The Salvation Army Tustin Ranch Church. He is an active member of the Band and serves as both Deputy Songster Leader and Corps pianist.
At the age of twelve, David made his debut as piano soloist with the Honolulu Symphony and appeared again with this orchestra at age fifteen. He has soloed with the Tucson Symphony and
appeared with the Richmond Symphony
performing Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F Major and Rhapsody in Blue. He did a repeat performance of the Rhapsody as the opening act for Aretha Franklin. In California, Mr. Dunford
performed Gershwin’s Piano Concerto with the Oakland East Bay Symphony and appeared twice with the Sacramento Symphony performing Bernstein’s Age of Anxiety in 2000 and Rhapsody in Blue in 2002.
To hear samples from David's latest CD please visit the Recordings page here.
To learn more about the Pioneer School of Music please visit their web site here.
TUSTIN RANCH MUSIC DEPARTMENT
HOSTS NACM FESTIVAL
The Music Department of The Salvation Army Church at Tustin Ranch was host to nine choirs made up of three hundred singers for the annual National Association of Church Musicians Adult Choral Festival on Sunday, April 22, 2007.
NACM is a national association of church music directors and organists whose purpose is to promote church music to the highest levels by hosting workshops, festivals and their annual convention.
The Orange County Chapter, whose president is Francisco Calvo, Minister of Music at Orange United Presbyterian Church, has hosted this annual event for over thirty years. The festival is designed to bring together different church denominations to share their musical talents and sing together for two combined choir pieces. The festival this year was hosted by The Tustin Ranch Salvation Army Church. Their beautiful 600 seat sanctuary was
the perfect venue for this event.
The highlight of the day was the performance by The Salvation Army Band led by Bandmaster Ed Freeman and the solo piano performance by
David Dunford of the Tustin Ranch Music Department The Tustin Ranch Songsters, led by Bruce Freeman, also performed to rave reviews.
All nine choirs ended the event by singing two anthems written by the guest conductor, Allan Robert Petker. Allan is a past president of NACM, Director of Music at San Pedro Methodist
Church and writes and publishes music under his own company name,Pavone Music Company.
A reception was held in the church courtyard after the event. Other church choirs participating were: Evangelical Free, Fullerton; First Methodist, Placentia; United Presbyterian, Orange; Our Savior’s Lutheran, Irvine; First Presbyterian, Anaheim; St. Marks Lutheran, Newport Beach
and Reformation Lutheran, Huntington Beach.
