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David Coulter has worked internationally as an artist, teacher, lecturer, workshop leader and deviser/director of over 30 large scale music/performance/theatre events for young people. David has created and composed soundtracks for numerous dance, theatre, film, tv and radio projects including Yolande Snaith, Protein Dance, Candoco and Le Ballet du Fargistan. In April 2004 he played musical saw in Hal Wilner’s Nino Rota/Fellini tribute concert at the Barbican. He is currently guesting with the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain and spent most of last year and January 2005 as Associate Music Director and multi-instrumentalist with Tom Waits and Robert Wilson on the opera The Black Rider, produced by BITE. In September and October 2004 David performed on stage at the Geary Theatre in San Francisco in more than 50 sold out performances of The Black Rider. He was also didjeridu player to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll on several State occasions including recitals at Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey. In December 2004 he toured Japan. Coulter saw in 2005 playing 3 sold-out nights at Sydney Opera House as guest soloist for Came So Far For Beauty - a celebration of the music of Leonard Cohen - where he played music saw and jews harp with Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker, Antony, Rufus + Martha Wainwright and The Handsome Family. In February 2005 David was in San Francisco where he and friend Ralph Carney contributed their eclectic soundscapes to Hal Willner's score for Robert Wilson’s KOI POND, which was shown at Expo 2005 in Tokyo.
His numerous live and studio collaborations as a multi-instrumentalist include work with The Pogues , Kronos Quartet, Charlemagne Palestine, Talvin Singh, Nitin Sawnhey, Sandy Dillon, Ed Harcourt, Thea Gilmore, Test Dept, Peter Hammill, Steve Martland, The Communards, Vivian Stanshall, Joe Strummer, Roger Eno, Steve Nieve, Marc Ribot, Sarah-Jane Morris, Richard Strange, John Harle, Hector Zazou, 48 Cameras, Michael Gira, Lydia Lunch, Marianne Faithfull and Mary Margaret O’Hara.
Early 2006 sees another Daughters of Albion concert this time at The Barbican in London, a residency at Dartington College of Arts and Coulter's reprising his role as Associate Music Director for The Black Rider which will be running at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles until mid-June.
Please keep eyes open for the Spring release of One Little Indian artiste Sandy Dillon's new album - Pull The Strings - produced by and featuring DC!
