Long Island audiences are increasingly familiar with David Wiley's work as a conductor, as he leads classical, educational and pops programs with our re-energized Long Island Philharmonic and Chorus. What many music lovers may not realize is that our popular conductor has an impressive career as a pianist and composer as well. "I love my work as music director and conductor, but I equally relish opportunities to collaborate as piano soloist with my orchestral colleagues." Wiley made his debut as pianist and composer at the age of ten in his native Boston, in the premiere performance of his first piano concerto. Having continued to compose, he has performed his three piano concerti, and has written numerous choral, chamber and orchestral compositions and arrangements. As a solo pianist, Wiley has performed with numerous orchestras throughout the United States including Minnesota, Indianapolis, Oregon, Honolulu, Wheeling, and summer festivals including Aspen, Garth Newel, Wintergreen, and Prince Albert in Hawaii. During this 2007-08 season he performs Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue as both pianist and conductor with several orchestras in the U.S., and travels to the Czech Republic, Germany and Italy. He also performs and conducts piano concerti by J.S. Bach with string orchestras in New York and Virginia, and recently premiered his newly commissioned choral/orchestral composition for chorus and orchestra based on the "Prayer of St. Francis."

David Wiley became only the fourth Music Director of our LI Philharmonic in 2001, after an international conductor search drew hundreds of applicants from around the world. Since then, Wiley is credited with bringing continued artistic growth, energy and excitement to the Long Island Philharmonic and Chorus. Wiley has conducted side-by-side concerts, in which music students perform with the orchestra and youth concerts with the LIP, and has led top youth orchestras on Long Island. He leads parks concerts, educational concerts, and special in-home events. Wiley has been a visible and energetic leader for the Philharmonic while building audiences with his popular pre-concert conversations. He has created and hosted TV shows promoting Long Island and the LIP, and the orchestra is seeing increased financial stability, critical acclaim, and growing audiences and revenues. The 2007 LIP New Year's Eve concert was a popular sell-out, and the Orchestra and Chorus are expanding into additional performance venues including Patchogue and Garden City.

This past fall, Wiley led an acclaimed leadership seminar with Allstate executives and musicians entitled "Conducting Change." His CD recordings include several French cello concerti with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra and cellist, Zuill Bailey on the Delos label, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 "Choral", American Piano Concertos with Norman Krieger, "David Wiley & Friends: Classical Jazz" with music for Flute & Jazz Piano Trio by Bolling and Wiley, and "American Trumpet Concertos" with the Slovak Radio Symphony/Paul Neebe recorded in Bratislava.

Wiley has conducted the symphonies of Atlanta, Boston, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Minnesota, Saint Louis, Oregon, New Mexico, Honolulu, Utah and Buffalo, and at major music festivals including Aspen, Tanglewood, Park City and the Music Academy of the West. Wiley's career has taken him to dozens of countries in Europe, Asia and Africa. In addition to his work as Music Director of our Long Island Philharmonic, David Wiley serves as Music Director & Conductor of Virginia's Roanoke Symphony Orchestra. Prior to these positions, Wiley served as Assistant Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and as Artistic Director of the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival from 1999 to 2006, where he founded the festival orchestra and Academy.

David Wiley won the 1993 Aspen Conducting Prize, and was the Assistant Conductor for the 1994 Aspen Music Festival. In 1995 he was awarded a Conducting Fellowship at Tanglewood. Wiley holds four degrees: a Doctor of Music in Conducting from Indiana University, where he had also received his Master of Music, and holds a degree in Piano Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, and a degree in Religion with highest honors from Tufts University.

David and his wife, Leah Marer Wiley, have two children.