David Song is an undergraduate student majoring in finance at Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business. He started playing the violin at the age of seven and immediately started putting his name out in the music industry, winning first prize in the Crescendo International Music Competition in back-to-back years in 2013 and 2014.

He joined the New York Youth Symphony as an orchestral violinist in 2019, making his Carnegie Stall Stern Auditorium debut in the opening cycle. He participated in the New York Youth Symphony’s Grammy-winning album Works by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, and Valerie Coleman. He attended the Manhattan School of Music Precollege under Bela Horvath at the start of his sophomore year and has led both the precollege Symphony Orchestra as concertmaster and the Philharmonic Orchestra as a principal violinist. He graduated in 2023 on the Dean’s List. After four seasons as an orchestral violinist for the New York Youth Symphony, David re-joined the orchestra as an Assistant Manager for the 2023-24 season and played as assistant principal second violinist in the orchestra’s 2024 Greece tour.