A native of Budapest, Hungary, David Ormai is an active performer and teacher in Michigan. Hi is a member of the Ann Arbor Symphony and also regularly performs with the Michigan Opera Theatre, the Kalamazoo Symphony and Toledo Symphony. He has also performed with such ensembles as City Music Cleveland, the Colorado Music Festival, and the Danubia Symphony of Hungary.
As a dedicated teacher, David maintains a private studio of over 30 students in Ann Arbor. He has completed Suzuki training with Kimberly Meier-Sims of the Sato Center for Suzuki Studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and has taught at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan, the Parlando School for the Arts in Boulder, Colorado, and the Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts.
An avid chamber musician, he has competed at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition as well as the Rutenberg Chamber Music Competition with the The Sweetwater Trio. He has studied with members of the Takacs, Cavani, and Phoenix Quartets, as well as Peter Salaff, Christopher Harding, Louis Nagel and Cornelia Heard.
Early music performance practice is one of David's biggest passions and inspirations. His affinity for it has led him to perform and record with the world-renowned baroque orchestra, Apollo's Fire. His early music teachers include Cynthia Roberts, Jeannette Sorrell, Edward Parmentier, Penelope Crawford, Aaron Berofsky, Julie Andrijeski, Peter Bennett, and Rene Schiffer.
David has participated in many summer music festivals including the Aspen Music Festival, the Academie de Musique Tibor Varga festival in Scion, Switzerland, and the Bartok Festival in Szombathely, Hungary. During the summer of 2010, he was the concertmaster and soloist for the music festival on Michigan's own Beaver Island, 'Baroque on Beaver'.
David's primary teachers include Yehonatan Berick, Aaron Berofsky, Paul Kantor, Harold Wippler, Barbara Barber and Ellie Albers LeRoux. He has participated in masterclasses given by Mihaela Martin, Dong-Suk Kang, Gyorgy Pauk, Jordi Savall, The Cavani Quartet, The Altenberg Trio, and the Rebel baroque ensemble. He holds a Bachelors degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a Masters Degree from the University of Michigan.
As a dedicated teacher, David maintains a private studio of over 30 students in Ann Arbor. He has completed Suzuki training with Kimberly Meier-Sims of the Sato Center for Suzuki Studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and has taught at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan, the Parlando School for the Arts in Boulder, Colorado, and the Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts.
An avid chamber musician, he has competed at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition as well as the Rutenberg Chamber Music Competition with the The Sweetwater Trio. He has studied with members of the Takacs, Cavani, and Phoenix Quartets, as well as Peter Salaff, Christopher Harding, Louis Nagel and Cornelia Heard.
Early music performance practice is one of David's biggest passions and inspirations. His affinity for it has led him to perform and record with the world-renowned baroque orchestra, Apollo's Fire. His early music teachers include Cynthia Roberts, Jeannette Sorrell, Edward Parmentier, Penelope Crawford, Aaron Berofsky, Julie Andrijeski, Peter Bennett, and Rene Schiffer.
David has participated in many summer music festivals including the Aspen Music Festival, the Academie de Musique Tibor Varga festival in Scion, Switzerland, and the Bartok Festival in Szombathely, Hungary. During the summer of 2010, he was the concertmaster and soloist for the music festival on Michigan's own Beaver Island, 'Baroque on Beaver'.
David's primary teachers include Yehonatan Berick, Aaron Berofsky, Paul Kantor, Harold Wippler, Barbara Barber and Ellie Albers LeRoux. He has participated in masterclasses given by Mihaela Martin, Dong-Suk Kang, Gyorgy Pauk, Jordi Savall, The Cavani Quartet, The Altenberg Trio, and the Rebel baroque ensemble. He holds a Bachelors degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and a Masters Degree from the University of Michigan.
Thank you to all of the people who have in some way contributed to my musical education!
My whole family especially my mother, Richard Aaron, Laura Albers,
Rebecca Albers, Ellie Albers LeRoux, Julie Andrijeski, Barbara Barber,
Peter Bennett, Yehonatan Berick, Aaron Berofsky, Gabriel Bolkosky, James
Brody, James Buswell, Eric Charnofsky, Penelope Crawford, Jeannette
Davis Ostrander, David Brown, Laszlo Denes, Alicia Doudna, Edward
Dusinberre, Linda Etter, Helga Fath, Adam Flatt, Daniel Flick, Arkady
Fomin, Mary Ellen Ford, Annie Fullard, Alvaro DeGranda, Marshall
Griffith, David Halen, Barbara Hamilton, Cornelia Heard, Thomas
Heinrich, Yumi Hwang-Williams, Paul Kantor, Anna Maria Karacsony, John
Kendall, Istvan Kertesz, Theodore Kuchar, Lawrence Loh, Marcia Marchesi,
Mihaela Martin, Andrew Mead, Matthew Means, Kimberly Meier-Sims, Eric
Moore, Richard Nelson, Michelle Obrecht, Devon Park, Mary Alice Park,
Loyal Park, Edward Parmentier, Eszter Perenyi, Joan Plana, Ron Revier,
Cynthia Roberts, Steven Rose, Ellen Rowe, Paul Rowinsky, Alice Rybak,
Peter Salaff, Mari Sato, Andras Schiff, Lauren Schiff, Kelsey Schmidt,
Julia Siciliano, Leslie Smith, Susan Smith, Jeannette Sorrell, Gyula
Stuller, Gabor Takacs Nagy, Carl Topilow, Kirk Toth, Brandon Vance,
Brett Wallace, Harold Wippler, Haixin Wu, Sita Yetasook, Kai-Lin Yong,
Maria Zseszabo, and many many more!