David Quang-Minh Nguyen is an educator, sound designer/re-recording mixer, and composer of concert music. His current interests lie in composing acousmatic works that explore sound spatialization and immersive audio.

Recognized nationally and internationally, David has had his works presented at the June in Buffalo New Music Festival, where he received individual masterclasses with Harvey Sollberger, Martin Bresnick, Roger Reynolds, and Brian Ferneyhough. He was an active participant in the Festival DME under the direction of Åke Parmerud, the Musique & Recherches Académie d’été de composition électroacoustique under the direction of Annette Vande Gorne and João Pedro Oliveira, and the Sounds Around Me Festival under Thomas Gorbach. He was also selected by Master Artist Robert Normandeau for a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

His works have been presented at numerous national and international events, and he has been a laureate or finalist in several competitions. He has been published on ABLAZE Records’ Electronic Masters Vol. 7 and received an honorable mention at the XII Destellos Electroacoustic Competition (2019) for his work Misprints. He also placed 2nd in the XIII Destellos Competition for Adumbrations, was a finalist for the PRIX CIME 2019, and won 2nd place in the ASCAP/SEAMUS Award for his work Weight Stranding. In 2021, his SEAMUS-commissioned piece Whale Song Stranding was selected for presentation on the SEAMUS 31 CD and received the Ars Electronica Forum Wallis selection. David was awarded the Prix CIME 2023 Residency Award for Whale Song Stranding. His work Texture Arc the Points won 1st place in the ULJUS Međunarodno Pijanističko Takmičenje Smederevo Competition and 2nd place in the prestigious Concours Biennal de Composition Acousmatique Métamorphoses.

David Q. Nguyen holds a BM from Old Dominion University, where he studied with Andrey R. Kasparov and Mark Chambers. He received his Master’s degree and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where his primary teachers were Reynold Tharp, Erik Lund, Eli Fieldsteel, Sever Tipei, and Scott A. Wyatt.