David Eaton

David Eaton

David Eaton
Adviser of Art and Culture

David Eaton has been the music director of the New York City Symphony since 1985 and has conducted concerts with the orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the United Nations, the Apollo Theater, Merkin Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Manhattan Center. He has appeared as a guest conductor with orchestras in Europe, Canada, Asia, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, Central and South America and the United States. From 2016 to 2023 he served as an artist-in-residence in South Korea as the Director of Music at the Hyo Jeong Cultural Foundation and conductor of the Hyo Jeong Youth Orchestra. Additionally, he has been a prolific composer and arranger with one hundred original compositions and over 900 arrangements and transcriptions to his credit. He recently published his first book, What Music Tells Me: Beauty, Truth and Goodness and Our Cultural Inheritance.