For the past thirty years David has performed in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Poland, South Korea, Taiwan, Uruguay, United Kingdom and United States.  In summer 2014, he was invited to perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the largest arts festival in the world.

​

As an orchestral musician he has worked with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Gerry Cornelius, Paul Goodwin, Andrew Grams, Junichi Hirokami, Christopher Hogwood, Anthony Inglis, Robert King, Geoffrey Lancaster, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Alexander Liebreich, Edwin Outwater, Philip Pickett, Daniel Raiskin, Helmuth Rilling, Johannes Schlaefli, Tan Dun, George Tintner, Christopher Warren-Green, Scott Yoo, among others.

 

David’s music collaborators have also included Alison Balsom, Matthew Barley, Yuri Bashmet, Renaud Capuşon, Ray Chen, Robert Chen, Sa Chen, Michael Collins, Peter Cooper, Michel Dalberto, Peter Donohoe, Augustin Dumay, Ts’ong Fou, David Garrett, Martin Grubinger, Augustin Hadelich, Leslie Howard, Alina Ibragimova, Daishin Kashimoto, Freddy Kempf, Yoko Kikuchi, John Lill, Michael Nyman, Cristina Ortiz, Norika Ozawa, Jean-Claude Pennetier, Pascal Rogé, Los Romero, Mikhail Rudy, Howard Shelley, Sayaka Shoji, Melvyn Tan, Stefan Temmingh, Alexandre Tharaud, Cédric Tiberghien, Jian Wang, Pieter Wispelwey, Tina-wa Yang, Pinchas Zukerman, et al. 

 

In 2015, the dance film "Rite of City II: Present" featured his performance of Bach Cello Suites, starring locations in Florence, Italy: Piazza della Signoria, Ponte Vecchio, Museo Stibbert, and Le Murate Firenze. Le Murate was the temporary abode of political prisoners during Italy's fight for independence in the mid-nineteenth century; a century later, during the Second World War, political prisoners captured by the fascists were also imprisoned there.

​

David started his cello lessons with Wu Ge, a disciple of Paul Tortelier, at the age of fifteen when he was admitted to the Junior Music Programme at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. During the four years when he read music at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he studied the cello with Ray Wang who was a student of Orlando Cole. In a masterclass he played for the late Paul Olefsky whose teachers included Gregor Piatigorsky, Pablo Casals, Herbert von Karajan and Pierre Monteux. His cello playing has also been inspired by Wai-ming Wong, founding concertmaster of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta.

​

David was a soloist with the Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra and has been a member of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta for over a decade. Apart from performing as a cellist, David also organized an orchestra which has performed music by such composers as Bach, Beethoven, Durufle, Faure, Handel, Haydn, Mahler, Mozart, Rutter and Stravinsky.

​