Daphne is a 25-minute monodrama written for coloratura soprano Sara Paar, inspired by the #MeToo movement’s surge in public consciousness in 2017.
July 17, 2021Secret, Lost, Undone was commissioned by The Broadway Chamber Players for their June 2016 American Composers concert and is a piece for flute, English horn, trumpet and cello.
September 16, 2023
Adventures of the Mind Monkey refers to the Buddhist description of the mind as a monkey continually jumping from one thing to another, and the piece tries to capture the experience of attempting (not always successfully) to meditate.
October 17, 2021The Ballad of Unintended Consequences is a song cycle on original texts for baritone and piano, commissioned by Andy White.
January 16, 2023
University of Louisville School of Music Opera Theatre students performed “Rapture” on March 21st and 23rd.
April 16, 2025Learn MoreCambiata Duo performed What Remains at Bayard Cutting Arboretum, sponsored by Islip Arts Council on March 16th.
April 16, 2025Learn MoreWatch for David’s debut EP as a singer/songwriter, Gravity Well, to be released in early May!
January 2, 2024
July 8, 2021Get the CD on Amazon
David’s CD Seventeen Windows has been recommended by Expedition Audio’s Paul Ballyk.
David Wolfson is a composer, music director, arranger, pianist and copyist who lives in New York City. He graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music in 1985, and in that same year was the first recipient of the newly established Darius Milhaud Award and won the Bascom Little Fund’s Musical Theatre Composition Competition for his short opera Rainwait. After many years attending the school of hard knocks, he transferred to Hunter College, graduating with an MA in music composition in 2013, and in 2018 was granted his PhD in composition by Rutgers University.
His compositional output has included music for dance and trans-disciplinary performance and incidental music for plays; opera, musicals, children’s musicals and comedy songs; song cycles, chamber music and music for orchestra; and one memorable score for an amusement park big-headed costumed character show.
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Adventures of the Mind Monkey
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Daphne
Opera, Soprano, Theatre Music, Voice - Featured!
Every Tiny Thing
Concert, Soprano, Vocal - Featured!
Secret, Lost, Undone
Cello, Chamber Ensemble, Concert, English Horn, Flute, Solo & Chamber, Trumpet A Fine Invention
Opera, Soprano, Tenor, Theatre Music, VoiceA Long Corridor With No Doors
Chamber Ensemble, Concert, Flute, Keyboard, Percussion, Solo & Chamber A Long Corridor With No Doors (2014), A Long Corridor With No DoorsA Woman’s Life and Loves
Concert, Soprano, Vocal Many Keys, The Butcher's Boy, My Boy A Soldier, Married Many Years, I Live In My Son's House, I Live In My Son's House, Many Keys, Married Many Years, My Boy a Soldier, the butcher's BoyAcoustic Instrumentals
Guitar, Other Genres, Piano, Recorder Flying Fish, Busybodies, Bouncy Toy, All There Ever Was, Short Candle, Things With Feathers, All There Ever Was, Busybodies, Things With FeathersAlleluia
Choral, Concert Alleluia (beginning), Alleluia (ending)Angels Unawares
Cello, Concert, Guitar, Solo & Chamber, Soprano, Vocal, VoiceAs Yet Unrecorded (MIDI realizations)
As-Yet Unrecorded, Bassoon, Cello, Cello Quartet, Concert, Full Orchestra, String Orchestra, Vocal Ensemble A Ball Of Gold, Sic Transit, Time Through A Window, Time Through A Window, Time FliesBloothooft and Plomp
Concert, Saxophone, Solo & ChamberBreath
Music Theatre, Soprano, String Quartet, Theatre Music, Vocal, Vocal EnsembleCat: Adventures of a Caterpillar
Children's Musicals, Theatre Music What You See Depends On You (Cat and the Vulture), My Own Song (Cat), Go With The Flow (Cat and the Hippo), Dirt (The Worm)Comedy Songs
Comedy Songs, Other Genres, Voice My True Love, Older Men And Androids, The Cabbage Song, My Little Brother, My Little Brother, My True Love, Older Men and androids, the Cabbage Song, the Not Enough Coffee SongDammit, Shakespeare
Incidental Music, Theatre Music Out of Bar, Errol Flynn, Henry V, Don't Have Words, Anne LeavesDeep Woods: The Unicorn Sings to Memory
Chamber Ensemble, Concert, Orchestral, Soprano, String Orchestra, String Quartet, Vocal, Voice Deep Woods Reading, Deep Woods String QuartetDreamhouse
Musicals, Theatre Music Song For An Accident, Like No Plague, Now We Have None, Our Lady Of The Interstate, How To Love Your Daughter, I'm Sorry You Got Evicted, How to Love Your Daughter, I'm Sorry You Got Evicted, Like No Plague, Now We Have None, Our Lady of the Interstate, Song for an accidentEM/R Dance Company, Wichern/Wolfson Dance & Music
Flute, Keyboard, Modern Dance, Percussion, Theatre Music Wrestling (from Breath), Visitation, The Enormous Room, The Eagle Descends, Shadowboxing, A Long Corridor With No Doors, Camille's Waltz, a Long Corridor with no Doors, Camille's Waltz, Shadowboxing, the Eagle Descends, the Enormous Room, the Shadow from the Light, Visitation, WrestlingEuphory
Bassoon, Chamber Ensemble, Clarinet, Concert, Flute, Horn, Oboe, Solo & Chamber, Woodwind QuintetExperience Vocal Dance Company
Music Theatre, Soprano, Theatre Music, Vocal Dance, Voice Edge II, Sara's VocaliseFeet First
Concert, Solo & Chamber, ViolinFestival of Sharp Objects
Concert, Flute, Solo & ChamberFirst Fall
Concert, Flute, Piano, Solo & Chamber, Soprano, VocalFour Distractions
Concert, Solo & Chamber, ViolinFull Court Press
Musicals, Theatre Music Don't Tell Me, The Reverend's Prayer, You And MeHeat Lightning
Concert, Percussion, Solo & ChamberI Wish I Were…
Cello, Clarinet, Concert, Flute, Solo & Chamber, Vocal EnsembleInterior Life
Concert, Mezzo-Soprano, Vocal, Voice The Made Bed, Junk Drawer, A Desk, The Bookcase, Windowsills, The Unmade Bed, a Desk, Junk Drawer, the Bookcase, the Made Bed, the Unmade Bed, WindowsillsIntermezzo
Cello, ConcertIntrados
Chamber Ensemble, Concert, Flute, Guitar, Solo & ChamberLike Water
Concert, Soprano, VocalMaybe We Won’t Remember How to Be Sorry
Bassoon, Chamber Ensemble, Concert, Horn, Oboe, Saxophone, Solo & Chamber, Wind QuartetMood Swings
Cello, Chamber Ensemble, Concert, Solo & Chamber, ViolaMy First Pop-up Book of the Infinite Beyond
Chamber Ensemble, Concert, Flute, Keyboard, Percussion, Solo & ChamberOrotundia
Chamber Ensemble, Concert, Horn, Solo & Chamber, Trumpet, TubaPandora’s Box
Chamber Ensemble, Concert, Percussion, Solo & ChamberPlay Like A Winner
Musicals, Theatre Music Play Like A Winner, Know Your Enemy, Snack Mom, Sacrifice, Model Influence, Without You, The Day That We First Met, Something NutritiousRapture
Mezzo-Soprano, Opera, Soprano, Theatre MusicRecurve
Cello, Chamber Ensemble, Clarinet, Concert, Piano, Solo & Chamber, ViolinRuck
Chamber Ensemble, Concert, Saxophone, Solo & ChamberSeventeen Windows
Concert, Piano, Solo & Chamber Window 1, Window 6, Window 15Sonata for Cello and Piano
Cello, Concert, Piano, Solo & ChamberSong for an Accident
Other Genres, Pop SongsSongs from Breath
Chamber Ensemble, Concert, Soprano, String Quartet, Vocal, Voice I am alive, Mine, Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer, The Bustle in a House, I heard a fly buzz when I died, autumn, I am alive, I heard a fly buzz when I died, Mine, Spring, Summer, the Bustle in a House, WinterSound Design
Other Genres, Sound Design Window 1, Window 2, Window 3, Window 4, Window 5, Window 6Story Salad
Children's Musicals, Theatre Music Goodnight Moon, Big Dog, Little Dog, The King's BreakfastThat Piece With the Trills In It
Bassoon, Chamber Ensemble, Clarinet, Concert, Flute, Horn, Oboe, Solo & Chamber, Woodwind QuintetThe Bet
Musicals, Theatre Music, VoiceThe Dwarf Planets
Concert, Full Orchestra, Orchestral I. Pluto, Welcomer of All, II. Eris, Goddess of Discord, III. Ceres, Mother of Growing Things, I. Pluto, Welcomer of All, II. Eris, Goddess of Discord, III. Ceres, Mother of Growing ThingsThe Loss of D Natural
Incidental Music, Theatre Music Opening Cue, Suspense Cue, Mad Scene Cue, Closing CueThe Lost Boy
Incidental Music, Theatre Music Act One Curtain, End Act One, Act Two Curtain, Davey Dance, Flashback Underscore, End Act Two, Act Three Curtain, Leaving MotherThe Particle Songs
Concert, Soprano, Vocal, Voice Electron, Gluon, Higgs Boson, Neutrino, PhotonThe Rain it Raineth Every Day
Choral, ConcertThe Seven Principles
Choral, ConcertTime and Tide (Benediction)
Cello, Cello Quartet, Concert, Solo & ChamberTwinkle, Dammit!
Concert, Solo & Chamber, Toy PianoWide Awake
Chamber Ensemble, Concert, Solo & Chamber, String QuartetWords the Dead Know
Concert, Piano, Solo & Chamber
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