David Möschler is an award-winning San Francisco Bay Area-based musical director and conductor.

He has music-directed over 125 musical theater and opera productions, and conducted over 200 pieces for orchestra, including over fifty premiere performances. Recent regional theater productions include musical direction for Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Shotgun Players, West Edge Opera, Ray of Light Theatre, Mountain Play, Lamplighters Music Theatre, SF Playhouse, San Jose Repertory Theatre, and Center REPertory Theatre among many others, as well serving on the conducting staff of Cape Cod’s College Light Opera Company since 2005.

Möschler is the recipient of two Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, a Theater Bay Area Award for Outstanding Musical Direction, and received second place in 2012 for The American Prize in Music for conducting Ragtime with the award-winning training company YMTC. Shortly after he was named their first Resident Musical Director and has since conducted over 30 productions, with many of his students going onto Broadway and National Tours across the world.

In the spring of 2013, Möschler founded Awesöme Orchestra Collective, which meets monthly and holds free orchestra reading sessions of new and traditional repertoire in non-traditional and accessible locations. In addition to leading them in over 100 live events, he’s taken them into the studio where they’ve been featured on over a dozen albums, including the wildly popular tribute series Undercover Presents where he was guest music director for Sly and The Family Stone’s iconic album STAND!. Möschler has also toured across North America several times with bands like The Dear Hunter and as band-leader for Pop Up Magazine.

In addition to staying in demand as a vocal coach, accompanist, and contractor, Möschler is a passionate teaching artist and has been a faculty member and guest lecturer at many Bay Area colleges and high schools. He’s taught courses and masterclasses at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Academy of Art University, Osher Life-Long Learning Institute at SF State, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, where he specializes in developing courses on film music and Stephen Sondheim.

Originally from the east coast, Möschler attended public high school at The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, then received a Bachelor of Arts in Physics and Bachelor of Music in Tuba Performance at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He then studied orchestral and choral conducting at University of California at Davis where he completed his Master of Arts in Music and published his thesis on Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel. He’s been living happily in the Bay Area ever since.

Whether he’s in the orchestra pit, on the concert stage, at a rock concert, in the recording studio, or in the classroom, Möschler seeks out musical adventures and innovative projects of all kinds and strives to make orchestras as diverse and accessible to as many people as possible.