This year David conducts choirs from Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines and China at the Asian Pacific Activities Conference Choral Festival in Kobe, Japan, All-State High School Women’s Choirs in Virginia and Nebraska, the Alabama ACDA Young Singers Festival Junior High Mixed Choir at Auburn University, and the Norman All-City Chorus in Norman, Oklahoma. In May he returns to Carnegie Hall for

 
  a sixth time, conducting a concert of his works for chorus and orchestra. He also appears as conductor for the Portland Symphonic Girlchoir workshop, the High School Choral Leadership Workshop at Emporia State University in Kansas, and headliner clinician and conductor at the Voices United tri-state conference at George Mason University in Virginia. New works premiere in Florida, Indiana, South Carolina, Michigan, Scotland and the Netherlands.  
     
  Last year David conducted the Children’s Honor Choir at the ACDA Northwest Division convention in Vancouver and the Junior High Honor Choir at the Southern Division convention in Louisville, the Arkansas All-State Men’s Chorus, The Oklahoma Arts Institute summer chorus, and regional honor and festival choirs in Pennsylvania, Washington, Florida and New York. He also presented for the Maryland Music Educators state conference and the Great Plains Music Education Workshop at Emporia State University in Kansas. New works premiered in Dallas, Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Fargo, Albany, Pasadena and San Francisco.  
     
  In the 2006-07 season, David conducted honor choirs at the North Central and Southwestern ACDA division conventions, the West Virginia Middle School All-State Chorus, and festival choirs in California, Indiana, Florida, New York and Illinois. His new band and choral work, Benedicto, for AMIS (the Association for Music in International Schools) debuted in Brussels, Belgium and A Living Song premiered at the New Millennium Festival in York, England. Other works had their first performances in Connecticut, Florida, West Virginia, Georgia, and Illinois.  
     
  From 2004 to 2005 David conducted all-county, all-state and festival choirs in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and Illinois, and a program of his works for singers and orchestra at Carnegie Hall. He appeared as a clinician for the Art of Literacy Symposium in Sarasota, Florida, the Choral Music Experience certification course at Elon College in North Carolina and the Pennsylvania state ACDA conference at Penn State University. New works premiered in Florida, Tennessee, Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Massachusetts and his intergenerational work Simple Boat, written for the Sierra Leone Project of War Child Netherlands, debuted in the Netherlands.  
     
  During the 2003-04 season Brunner conducted choirs in Oklahoma, Illinois, Pennsylvania and California and the National Mennonite High School Choral Festival in Virginia; appeared as clinician for the Tennessee Arts Academy in Nashville; and served on the conducting faculty for the New Millennium Festival and Choral Music Experience Institute in Cardiff, Wales. In Orlando, his university singers collaborated with the Orlando Opera and Cirque du Soleil in an acclaimed new production of Orff’s Carmina Burana. New works premiered in Boston for the Eastern Division ACDA, in Louisville for the Kentucky Music Educators Association All-State Children’s Chorus, and in Illinois for the 20th anniversary of the Young Naperville Singers.  
     
  In the 2002-03 season David conducted choirs in Illinois, Florida, New York and Vancouver, ACDA honor choirs in Wisconsin and West Virginia, and the Tennessee All-State Mixed Chorus; appeared as a clinician for the Tennessee ACDA state conference, Northern Illinois University School of Music, Cascade 2002 for the Ontario (Canada) Music Educators Association, and conducted his Ode to the Present and Future Days with 180 singers and orchestra at Carnegie Hall. New works premiered in Tennessee, Florida and Texas.  
     
  From 2001-02 David conducted choirs in Oklahoma, Louisiana, South Carolina, Florida, New York, Texas and Vancouver, and the Georgia 6th Grade Statewide Chorus, and toured Europe with the Florida Ambassadors of Music; appeared as commencement speaker for the University of Illinois School of Music; and as clinician at the Iowa ACDA state conference, the Kennesaw State University Music Education Conference in Georgia and a weeklong course of choral music study at Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania. New works premiered in West Virginia and Glascow, Scotland.  
     
  During the 2000-01 season David conducted choirs in Iowa, Virginia, New York and Illinois, and the Florida and Kentucky All-State Children’s Choruses; was a clinician for the Ohio and Oklahoma ACDA state conferences, the Perspectives Choral Workshop in Santa Fe, the MENC Northwestern Division conference in Spokane, and an adjudicator for the Undergraduate and Graduate Student Conducting Award Finals for the ACDA National Convention in San Antonio. New works premiered in Florida (Miami and Orlando), Connecticut, Michigan and West Virginia.  

 

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