David Whitwell
David Whitwell is a countertenor and trombonist who recently relocated to the Netherlands after fifteen years in New York City. He has been active in chamber music, jazz in both small and large ensembles, contemporary music, orchestras, and recording.
After his Carnegie Hall debut in 2017, he began combining countertenor voice and trombone performance, and now works in several ongoing chamber and opera projects that use this combination. These include a sackbut/countertenor and theorbo duo with Jeremy Bass, the New Amsterdam Trio, which combines art song with free improvisation, and Duo Crosscurrents.
Recent projects include a new show in Montreal with the trombone quartet So Wrong It’s Right, a microtonal recording in Hamburg with Georg Vogel, Matt Maneri, and Christoph Schweizer, and the premiere of a solo opera in Lucca, Italy by Girolamo Deraco. In the Netherlands, he has premiered new operas and music-theater works with Robin Koops, ICK Dance Amsterdam, and Thomas Myrmel. He is currently developing a music-theater project about the 1920s flagpole sitter Shipwreck Kelly.Whitwell holds a double degree in trombone performance and music education from Brooklyn College and a Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music.