David Homan is a composer and collaborative artist. A trained actor/director and pianist, he has composed music for numerous productions of Shakespeare and modern plays, including Einstein's Dreams, which was premiered by the Colorado String Quartet, and heard at the 2001 New York Fringe Festival (with the production's receiving an extended run at the Kraine Theatre, and winning Best Director in the Festival). He has also toured Europe (Florence and Budapest) as a playwright/composer/actor, and written theatrical scores for As You Like It, Mars Bars, Hamlet, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Orwell's 1984, and Great Expectations, among others. As part of an Artist’s Residency on Norton Island for the Eastern Frontier Society July 2004, he created the score for a modern dance work by Renata Celichowska entitled Black Ribbons, and is currently work on his play/novel, based on his chamber piece All Our Yesterdays, as well as rehearsing with his new “classical rock” band.

Dedicated to live composition for theatre, dance, chamber music, and musical theatre, Mr. Homan's current projects emphasize collaboration in live performance and communication between performers and creators in various fields.

Recent projects include commissions with choreographers Randy James, Missy Smith, Ariel Grossman, Letty Bassart, and Davis Robertson, as well as a new orchestral work entitled an Homage to Bloch, performed with the UF Orchestra in October 2009. Other projects include composing for Davis Robertson for BalletNY at the Joyce Theatre, with ACF Dance at the Di Capo Opera Theatre, with Mary Seidman and Dancers as part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and a work at DTW premiered by D3: Valerie Madonia, Suzanne Goldman, and Moly Daly. David’s music has been performed at Weill Hall/Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, CAMI Hall, the Thalia at Symphony Space, the Joyce Theatre, and the Harmione Club. The Da Capo Chamber Players and the American Symphony Orchestra have also performed his works. He is the founding director of the Live Arts Collaboration, a non-profit dedicated to producing multidisciplinary works in NYC, and the Executive Director of the American-Israel Cultural Foundation.

For samples of his work, or more information, visit www.homanmusic.com