David Quang-Minh Nguyen is a sound artist, sound designer/re-recording mixer, and composer devoted to working in the electroacoustic and acousmatic mediums. His current interests lie in composing narrative-driven compositions that use meaning as well as sound, which become the components that elaborate his works. He has taken interest in stressing the importance of sound spatialization and 3D immersive audio, whether working in Dolby Atmos, Higher-Order Ambisonics, and various amplitude panning algorithms.

He is a nationally and internationally recognized composer whose works have been presented at numerous events worldwide. Since focusing on immersive acousmatic music works, all his compositions have been finalists, received honorary mentions, or been awarded laureate status in several competitions.

David has received individual masterclasses in composition with Roger Reynolds and Brian Ferneyhough. He was an active participant in Festival DME under the direction of Åke Parmerud, focusing on live diffusion, and in the Musique & Recherches Académie d’été de composition électroacoustique under the direction of Annette Vande Gorne and João Pedro Oliveira, where he received insightful teachings for composing in multichannel. He was also selected by Master Artist Robert Normandeau for a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, where he was first exposed to acousmatic practices related to “cinema for the ear” and electronic music for loudspeaker domes.

David Q. Nguyen holds a BM in Music Composition from Old Dominion University, where he studied with Andrey R. Kasparov and Mark Chambers. He earned both his Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Music Composition from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he spent over 10,000 hours!! (roughly 8 hours a day, 7 days a week without fail) in the Experimental Music Studios— the “second electronic music studio developed in the United States”, and the “first formally acknowledged electro-acoustic facility in the United States”. At UIUC, his primary teachers include Eli Fieldsteel, Erik Lund, Reynold Tharp, Sever Tipei, and Scott A. Wyatt.