David is an avid concert performer, with recitals planned for next season which will include works by Beethoven, Mahler, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, and Finzi. He has also performed concerts at the Vero Beach Opera, The View in Old Forge, for the Sergio Franchi Foundation, and at the Yale School of Music. Mr. Pershall was the baritone soloist in Carmina Burana with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, and in A Sea Symphony with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra.

Recently, he made his debut at the Salzburger Landestheater where his performance as Marcello in La Bohème was heralded as “show stealing” and “magnificent.” Europe is quickly embracing this exciting artist as he sang the roles of Schaunard in La Bohème with the Norwegian National Opera and Rodrigo in Don Carlos with Opera Burg Gras in Austria. Mr. Pershall also collaborated with the prestigious Beethoven Easter Festival in Poland where he performed the roles of Orestes in Iphigénie en Tauride and Manfredo in L’Amore dei Tre Re.

A favorite or American stages, Mr. Pershall has sung at Avery Fisher Hall (now David Geffen Hall), the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Washington National Opera, Florida Grand Opera, and Minnesota Opera, among others.

During his extraordinary career, David has been heard as Papageno in The Magic Flute at Washington National Opera, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro at Boston Lyric Opera, Belcore in L’elisir d’amore at Minnesota Opera, and Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Florida Grand Opera.

Mr. Pershall has won First Prize in several international competitions, including the George London Award, the Gerda Lissner Competition, the Jensen Foundation, the Marcello Giordani Foundation, the New Jersey Verismo Competition, the Connecticut Opera Guild Competition, and the Hugo Kauder Competition for Voice. He is also the recipient of several awards from other prestigious competitions such as The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Giulio Gari Foundation, the Opera Index Competition, the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation and the National Bel Canto Vocal Competition.

David Pershall received his training at the Yale School of Music, and is a graduate of San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program and the Virginia Opera Resident Artist Program.