David N. Childs is a freelance composer, conductor, adjunct professor, and father, who lives in Dallas, TX. In addition to managing a busy composing schedule, David is President and Artistic Director of Vox Humana, a professional choir of 24 singers drawn from all over the USA. Additionally, he serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of North Texas and at Dallas College.

David received a Bachelor's degree in music from Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand; an MM degree in orchestral and choral conducting from the Florida State University, Tallahassee; and a DMA degree, also in orchestral and choral conducting, from Louisiana State University. Following his graduate studies at LSU he served as tenured Associate Professor of Choral Studies at Vanderbilt University from 2001- 2011.

David has conducted numerous All-State, college, professional, community, and honor choirs across the United States, New Zealand, Europe, and Japan. His compositions are frequently performed in all corners of the world, and he is a regularly commissioned composer. In June 2009, he conducted a world premiere of his Requiem Mass for chorus, soloists, and chamber orchestra in Carnegie Hall. In March of 2011, he premiered his new work Festival Te Deum for choir, orchestra, and soloists, also in Carnegie Hall. In subsequent years he has debuted additional new works across the United States, with the exception of 2020.

In July 2020, he was to have presented a seminar with Dr. Tracey Gregg-Boothby at the World Symposium on Choral Music, held in Auckland, New Zealand. Since the COVID pandemic, David has turned his attention to online instruction, including voice and composition. Most recently he taught a graduate choral composition and arranging course at the University of North Texas during this past summer, and he continues to teach private voice instruction through Dallas College.

In the Fall of 2016, David began focusing on music technology, with an emphasis on film scoring, recording, mixing and mastering, and music notation. One of his film scores Arctic Summer features in Christian Uhlig’s internationally acclaimed nature and travel film An Arctic Fairy Tale.