David Keringer

Saxophone

Academic Program Affiliation(s): Bard Conservatory of Music: Preparatory Division

Biography: David Keringer is a versatile clarinet, saxophone, and recorder player, currently a member of TŌN – The Orchestra Now at Bard College. As a soloist, he has played in Hungary, Austria, Italy, Japan, the United States, and on the Hungarian National TV Show “Virtuosos”. He was the winner of the Danubia Talents 2020 Competition in the Winds category, First Prize Winner of the National Saxophone Competition in 2014, and First Prize Winner of the National Clarinet Competition in 2013. He received a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary. After he graduated from the University of Music Vienna, he won a Fulbright Scholarship for the Advanced Performance Studies Program at Bard College Conservatory of Music. As an orchestra musician he been on stages of Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The MET Museum, the Wiener Musikverein, the Osaka Symphony Hall, the Palace of Arts Budapest, and many more. He is an avid collaborator in theatrical, and musical productions, and an enthusiastic woodwind doubler. He was in the pit orchestra of Mörbisch Festival Austria playing West Side Story, Budapest Operetta playing Hunchback of Notre Dame, Singin' in the Rain, and Comedy Theatre Budapest playing Cabaret.