David Ellenbogen is musician, composer, producer and educator. As a guitarist and vocalist he has performed in The Kingdom of Tonga, Ghana, Australia, Thailand, India, and at home in New York City.

Performing with various bands in college, David discovered another outlet to share his love of music and became a DJ at WKCR, NY, WHRW, Binghamton, and Radio Universe in Accra, Ghana. David spent a semester at the University of Ghana studying African Percussion and Philosophy and traveled the region.

After earning a masters degree at Columbia University, David was lured by the Center for Jazz Studies that professor Robert O'Meally was forming and eventually became Programs Director, producing their lecture and concert series with artists like Cyrus Chestnut and Bernice Regan. With Yale professor John Szwed, David produced the Blue Evolution series, which featured the John Coltrane inspired Double Duo (Ravi Coltrane, Rashied Ali, Mixashawn and Pheroan akLaff), Greg Osby, Jason Moran, Vijay Iyer, Steve Bernstein and many others. The success of this series caught the eye of legendary producer George Wein, whose achievements include creating the Newport Jazz Festival (in 1954) and New Orleans Jazz Heritage Festival.

David soon joined Wein and his company Festival Productions, Inc. He became the Associate Producer of the 2001 JVC Jazz Festival - Miami Beach and the 2001 JVC Jazz Festival - Toronto and worked on dozens of other festivals nationally and internationally. At this time David independently produced the annual Sun Ra Arkestra Halloween Haunt, an event that continues to this day.

After a few years at Festival Productions, David left NYC to study and record music in various places across the globe. He studied gamelan in Bali, learned the folk music of Samoa, and performed mean blues in Thailand but his studies were most influential and intensive in Calcutta, where he studied Raga on the Slide Guitar with guru Debashish Bhattacharya. Debashish, brother (tabla maestro) Subashish and Dave formed a life-long friendship and recorded an album's worth of material in India, called The Kolkata Sessions, with vocalist Ariel Dison. David also helped out in the studio as Debashish recorded the best-selling world album 3: Calcutta Slide Guitar, and wrote the liner notes to that album.

Today David has rejoined George Wein for several projects and is also busy teaching, performing and recording. His latest genre bending performance was at Joe's Pub where he played with some of the greatest musicians of Iran. The concert, produced by Red Hot, was celebrating the 800th birthday of the great poet Rumi.