Composer

David Michael Frank

December 21, 1948

David Michael Frank is an American music composer and Broadway conductor born and raised in Baltimore. He studied piano and composition at the Peabody Conservatory of Music and was a soloist with the Peabody Orchestra at age 16. He further his studies in Paris and earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University. He conducted The Me Nobody Knows at the Helen Hayes Theater in New York City at twenty-two, becoming the youngest conductor on Broadway at the time. In 1978, he relocated to California to pursue a career in film composition.