Before relocating to the Pacific Northwest, David Buice was Performing Artist-in-Residence at Oglethorpe University and Harpsichordist-in-Residence at the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, and Minister of Music at Church of the New Covenant in Doraville, Georgia. He has served as Director of Music at Faith Lutheran Church, Seattle, since October of 2017.
In addition to directing the Faith Lutheran Music & Arts Ministry, he has performed solo keyboard and chamber music with resident instrumentalists in the Faith Sanctuary, as well as presenting harpsichord and lautenwerck (lute-harpsichord) recitals for the Anacortes Arts Federation.
His collegiate organ studies were with Warren Hutton at The University of Alabama, with Larry Smith at Converse College, and with John Hamilton at The University of Oregon. His harpsichord studies were with George Lucktenberg at Converse College and with John Hamilton at The University of Oregon.
He made his New York City debut in two recitals at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, playing the Museum’s historic 1830 Appleton pipe organ, as well as becoming the first solo harpsichordist to be presented on the exclusive Patrons Lounge Recital Series. He returned to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2004 to play a lautenwerck (lute-harpsichord) recital for the Patrons Lounge Series.
Other performances have included recitals and master classes at The University of Memphis and The University of Mississippi, and up the Atlantic coast to Washington, D.C. and New England, while his West Coast tours have taken him to Las Vegas, Nevada, and to numerous venues in California, including Berkeley, Claremont (Pomona College), Monterey, Oakland, San Diego, San Francisco, Redlands, and Malibu (Pepperdine University). His performances have been broadcast on Public Radio and Television as well as on the Turner Broadcast System. From 2001 to 2017, he played numerous historic keyboard performances on harpsichords, lautenwerck, clavichord and fortepiano, at Oglethorpe University’s Museum of Art.
David Buice was a founding member of the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society; he has also served on the Board of Directors for the Atlanta Early Music Alliance. His numerous awards and honors include a major grant from the Georgia Council for the Arts and the National Endowment, which commissioned for his use a concert harpsichord by Richard Kingston, heard in recitals and master classes throughout the southeast.
Recordings include La Sylva and Other Seductions, featuring his large Kingston harpsichord, Go Calmly into Christmas with Sally Chapman Phillips, Soprano, and Heaven and Earth: Ancient Music for Relaxation and Meditation, in which his playing of a lautenwerck (lute-harpsichord) by Anden Houben evokes the 17th-century use of the lute and its music to induce altered states for healing and enlightenment.