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"In recent years, I have gotten to know a number of David DeBoor Canfield’s compositions and have been deeply impressed not only by the originality and diversity of his work but by his great mastery of orchestration. His writing is sophisticated and accessible at the same time and he is fully deserving of widespread recognition."

Arthur Fagen
Conductor
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"I have had a very fine musical experience lately getting to know the music of David DeBoor Canfield. Here is music of the finest quality written by a composer who really knows what he is doing and has the technique to write outstanding works which should be much known and much more often performed."

Samuel Adler
Composer & Professor
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"[Canfield’s music] provides an ear-caressing string of delights."

Peter J. Rabinowitz
Fanfare Magazine
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"[Canfield’s music] provides an ear-caressing string of delights."

Peter J. Rabinowitz
Fanfare Magazine
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"The saxophone music of David DeBoor Canfield demonstrates the composer’s immense talent while exploring the many facets of the instrument’s enormous capabilities as a means of musical expression."

Eugene Rousseau
Professor of Saxophone (retired)
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"David is the perfect example of a contemporary composer…whose works deserve recordings."

Martin Anderson
Fanfare Magazine

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Fulfilling Commissions

As a composer who has written works in various styles of older masters to the most avant-garde idiom, David DeBoor Canfield fulfills commissions in nearly every style.

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Find publications, listen to recordings, watch performances, read reviews and program notes for over 150 official works as well as unofficial works and juvenilia.
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