David Giardiniere, a native of Pennsylvania, has been a teacher, conductor, vocal soloist, clinician, adjudicator, composer, and arranger. A graduate of West Chester University, Northwestern University and New York University, he also received a diploma for studies done in Siena, Italy. Over a 20-year teaching career, his choral and instrumental groups performed throughout the eastern United States, Canada and in Vienna, Austria.

In 1998, he joined J.W. Pepper & Son and has recently been the Manager for WingertJones Publications. He is also the Director of Music at Faith Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, DE. A member of ASCAP, he has more than 50 published compositions, some of which have received recognition from the John Ness Beck Foundation, The Midwest Clinic, ASCAP annual awards and the Texas University Interscholastic League repertoire list.