David Feltner

Acclaimed by The Boston Globe for leading performances of “profound expressivity,” and praised for his “fervent advocacy” by The Boston Phoenix,

David Feltner is active as a conductor, violist, and composer. Equally at home in the symphonic and operatic worlds, he has served as Associate Conductor and Chorus Master for Boston Lyric Opera and Cover Conductor for Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops.

Mr. Feltner is entering his twentieth season as Music Director of the Nashua Chamber Orchestra, where his leadership caused music critic Jeff Rapsis to write: “Conductor David Feltner brought the Nashua Chamber Orchestra to new places.”

From 2022 to 2024 he was Music Director of the Merrimack Valley Philharmonic Orchestra, in residence at the Timberlane Performing Arts Center in Plaistow, NH. He is also in his twenty-fifth season as the Music Director of the Chamber Orchestra of Boston, a group that has won accolades from audiences and critics alike for its polished performances and innovative programs.

As Steven Ledbetter wrote in The Boston Music Intelligencer: “David Feltner put together a truly captivating program …one of the most completely satisfying concerts that I have heard this season.” As Michael Rocha wrote in The Boston Music Intelligencer: “All told, an immensely satisfying experience that left both heart and mind sated.” And as Geoffrey Wieting wrote in The Boston Music Intelligencer: “This performance will surely resound in many memories for a long time.”

He has been a guest conductor for several orchestras, including the Boston Civic Symphony, Adelphi Chamber Orchestra, Topeka Symphony Orchestra, Narragansett Bay Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic Community Orchestra and Intermezzo: The New England Chamber Opera Series.

An enthusiastic advocate for music of our time, Mr. Feltner has conducted numerous premieres and works by dozens of living composers, from Anaís Azul to Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.

As a violist, he has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Yamagata (Japan) Symphony, New York City Opera and Palm Beach Opera. His recent orchestral compositions include Dreams and Awakenings for trumpet and strings, Piccolo Concerto (The Night Sky and Wind in the Trees) and From the Depths for viola and orchestra, which he premiered with the NCO in June 2023.