International Orange Chorale

David Ahn

David started learning solfège from his mother at the tender age of 4 but soon dropped singing in favor of the piano and violin.  He rediscovered his voice halfway through college, when he switched his musical allegiances from the violin and sang with the Harvard Glee Club, the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and a couple of smaller groups.  From there, things just exploded.  During his six years pursuing a Ph.D. in computational semantics in Rochester, NY, he sang with a dozen different groups, including the Schola Cantorum at Christ Church, the Publick Musick, and Musica Spei.  A three-year postdoc in Amsterdam was accompanied by yet more singing, at the Nicolaaskerk and with Het Lelikoor and several other choirs.  In 2007, he finally landed in San Francisco, where he's quite content singing with the Camerata at Grace Cathedral and, of course, IOC.  He's still in search of voice part, though, and happy to take suggestions.

In real life, David tries to avoid applying too much of his academic training as a semanticist to his work as a software engineer for Bing (the Microsoft search engine).  In addition to singing and working, David eats, runs, and bicycles and just finished his first season of cyclocross.