David Melhorn-Boe serves as Director of Music for Chalmers United Church, as Chair of Music United, the United Church of Canada’s association of musicians and on the keyboard faculty of Upper Canada Academy of Performing Arts. David Melhorn-Boe founded and served as Artistic Director of the Rapport Singers of North Bay and conducted the Sudbury Chamber Singers for six years, and served as Minister of Music at Trinity United Church in North Bay for thirteen years.

David Melhorn-Boe grew up in Kingston, where he attended Winston Churchill, Rideau Public Schools, and K.C.V.I. He holds a Bachelor of Music and Education degrees from Queen's University and a Master of Folklore Studies from Memorial University of Newfoundland. His further studies include doctoral research in ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto with a focus on contemporary music of the First Nations community of Toronto.

David Melhorn-Boe has performed internationally in a wide range of musical styles, and has taught music in elementary and secondary schools and universities in Toronto, North Bay and Sudbury. He has worked as an artist-teacher with the Royal Conservatory of Music's Learning through the Arts programme and as an examiner for Conservatory Canada. He is in demand as a guest artist, teacher, festival adjudicator, and clinician for workshops in performance, composition and music education.

David is passionate about music and education. He is delighted to have returned to his Kingston home, and to have joined the faculty at the Academy.