2025-2026 Season

Past Seasons (2009-2025)

September 14, 2025 | Host for Online Yiddish Song Marathon
Derek hosts an hour of the 10 hour marathon celebrating 125 years of the Workers Circle. More info here.

October 10, 2025 | Duet for Violin and Viola in NYC
Ensemble in Process will perform Chant Donné and Les Adieux from the Duet as musical interludes for their 3-Act Medieval Chronicles. More info here.

October 29, 2025, 8pm | Yiddish Music Class at Lehrhaus, Somerville
Yiddish Music: From The Shul, To The Streets, To The Stage (And Back Again?), a lecture/discussion exploring the cultural relationship between religious and secular music within historic Ashkenazy communities. Course description here.

November 16, 2025, 4pm | ABV and Kolineu Concert
A Besere Velt, conducted by Derek David, performs on a collaborative concert with Kolineu at Congregation Kehillath Israel. Tickets here.

November 19, 2025, 8pm | Yiddish Modes Class at Lehrhaus, Somerville

December 3, 2025, 8pm | Yiddish Modes Class at Lehrhaus, Somerville

December 20-25, 2025 | Faculty at Yiddish New York
Conducting the Yiddish New York chorus and accompanying students in Judy Bressler's Private Vocal Coaching for Advanced Singers. Schedule here.

February 27, 2026 | Transitions Album Release!
Violist Jesse Morrison's Transitions, featuring A Partita for Solo Viola, is released on Wolfe Records and available on all streaming platforms and Bandcamp.

March 30, 2026 | Lecture at MIT’s JCL
I present my lecture “Yiddish Music: from the Shul to the streets, to the stage, and back again” at the MIT Jews for Collective Liberation.

April 14-19, 2026 | Oh World, Goodnight Tour in CO/NM
Rossini Club and Chatter collaborate in our first ever tour spanning Colorado to New Mexico is coming in 2026! Featuring a clarinet quintet by Boston-based composer Derek David commissioned in 2022 by the Rossini Club, the work is an epic tour-de-force that explores themes of Jewish identity, simultaneously centered around Johann Christoph Bach’s choral motet O Welt, gute Nacht. Del Sol Quartet will be reprising in their collaborative role for this astonishing work. Tour Info.

April 14, 2026 | Oh World, Goodnight Clarinet Quintet in Denver, CO
Clarinetist Nicholas Davies and the Del Sol Quartet performs at Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church, 7:30pm. Pay-what-you-can Ticket Reservation here.

April 16, 2026 | Oh World, Goodnight Clarinet Quintet in Boulder, CO
Clarinetist Nick Davies and the Del Sol Quartet performs the Clarinet Quintet "Oh World, Goodnight" at CU Boulder, 4:30pm.

April 18, 2026 | Oh World, Goodnight Clarinet Quintet in Santa Fe, NM
Presented by Chatter, Clarinetist Nick Davies and the Del Sol Quartet performs the Clarinet Quintet "Oh World, Goodnight" at Theater Santa Fe, 10:30am. Tickets Here.

April 18, 2026 | Song Cycle Premiere in Cambridge, MA
New Gallery Concert Series presents the premiere of the Yiddish song cycle "Joy of the Yiddish Word" with soprano Rose Hegele. More info here.

April 19, 2026 | Oh World, Goodnight for Clarinet Quintet in Albuquerque, NM
Presented by Chatter, Clarinetist Nick Davies and the Del Sol Quartet performs the Clarinet Quintet "Oh World, Goodnight" at Chatter, Albuquerque, 10:30am. Tickets Here.

April 27, 2026 | Lecture at Lehrhaus, Somerville, MA
Presenting a new lecture entitled The Art and Music of the Yiddish Theatre.

May 10, 2026 | ABV Concert with Golden Thread Ensemble
Sing Out, Fight Back! Yiddish Songs of Social Change featuring A Besere Velt Yiddish Chorus of Boston Workers Circle (Derek David, Music Director) and Golden Thread Ensemble. Tickets Here.

July 6-9, 2026 | Presentation at Music Theory Pedagogies Reimagined
I will present my paper entitled A Partimento Pedagogy for the 21st Century at the conferenced hosted by MIT. More info here.

July 19-25, 2026 | Residency at Manship Artists Residency