Born and raised in Chicago, David came from a very musical family and began studying the cello at a young age. After High School,  he began working at Kagan & Gaines in Chicago and spent several years working with Franz Kinberg , one of the best makers  of the mid twentieth Century who created especially fine violas. He then worked with a partner at a shop in Champaign-Urbana. In 1971he set up his own workshop in Dallas. In 1989, tiring of big city life, he moved to Taos, New Mexico.  

This exceptional viola has a big rich lovely sound but with a fine crisp responsive quality.