David Montgomery is Music Director of the Prince William Symphony Orchestra and Prince William Baroque in northern Virginia.

He trained as a pianist and opera conductor at the Oberlin Conservatory and the Berlin Hochschule für Musik, and later with René Leibowitz in Paris. He was an opera chorusmaster in Giessen, Germany, and later made his debut at the Lyon Opera in France. In the U.S. he was on staff at the San Francisco Opera and the Opera Company of Boston. He appeared onscreen for Columbia Pictures in 1993 and behind the scenes as historical consultant for Martin Scorsese´s The Age of Innocence. For some years he worked for Sony Classical in New York, London and Hamburg as an editor and performance advisor for Sony, BMG, Deutsche Grammophon and others. From 1995 to 2000 he served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Jena Philharmonic in the former East Germany, bringing that orchestra into international prominence for the first time since it was conducted in the early 20th century by Max Reger. He made seven recordings with the Jena Philharmonic on the BMG Arte Nova label in repertoire ranging from Beethoven and Berwald to Hanson, Bernstein, Shostakovich and Villa-Lobos.

Mr. Montgomery has appeared throughout the U.S. and Europe as a piano soloist, as a four-hand player with partners Paul Hersh and Camelia Sima, and as a chamber musician. He has recorded for RCA Victor Red Seal, BMG Arte Nova and Klavier Records International. David Montgomery is widely known as an authority on historical performance in the Viennese Classical period. He is the author of Franz Schubert´s Music in Performance (Pendragon Press), as well as many articles in the international scholarly journals. He holds the Ph.D. from U.C.L.A. and has taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and as a visiting professor at Tulane University and the College of William and Mary.