David Van Tieghem

David Van Tieghem was born in 1955 in Washington, D.C., the son of two visual artists. He studied percussion with Justin DiCioccio and at Manhattan School of Music, and, in 2007, he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Music Composition.

The dizzyingly impressive cast of landmark musicians with whom he has composed and performed includes David Byrne, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Arthur Russell, Laurie Anderson, Steve Reich, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Debbie Harry are just a few from an exhaustive (and ongoing) list. He has also composed music for Pulitzer and Tony-winning dance and theatre, for productions starring Adam Driver, Christopher Walken, Molly Ringwald, Bradley Cooper, Keith Carradine, Orlando Bloom, among others. And he has even appeared, with toy raygun and kitchen utensils, on David Letterman and, in NASA labcoat and Egon Spengler glasses, in performance at the Guggenheim for German national television.