He has been a guest lecturer for the American Harp Society, The World Harp Congress, as well as other harp festivals all over the United States, Australia, Ireland, and the Royal College of Music in London.

He is also active in arranging pop songs for harp, and has over a dozen published arrangements.  He has also formed a harp quartet in Phoenix, Arizona with harpists Adrienne Bridgewater, Jaqui Musselman, and Alla Yashneva called “The Iceman Group” and is also creating arrangements for them.

David currently resides in Glendale, Arizona with his 3 dachshunds (Coney Island Hot Dog, Chili Cheese Dog, and Onions on the Side-“Coney, Cici, and Ootsie”)  and continues to do free-lance film work in addition to a full schedule of harp performance.

David Ice

David M. Ice began his harp education in 1977 under the tutelage of Adienne Bradley in Salt Lake City, Utah, as a form of relaxation therapy to relieve stress from his work on the TV series Grizzly Adams.  His later teachers include Marjorie Call-Salzedo and David Watkins (former principal harp of the London Philharmonic Orchestra).  Fate led him into professional playing, even though that was never his intention.  He is currently Principal Harp with the Musica Nova Symphony in Scottsdale, and has played with many other local and regional orchestras and operas, in addition to doing pit work for shows and musicals.

David is also (to the best of anyone’s knowledge) the only professional harpist who is also a professional film editor.  David worked in Hollywood for many years, primarily as a sound editor.  His credits include the last six seasons of M*A*S*H  and over 65 feature films, as well as countless other hours of television programs including The Fall Guy, Trapper John M.D., Moonlighting, The Paper Chase, and many others.