David Gompper

David Gompper (b. 1954) is an American composer, pianist, and conductor, professor of composition and director of the Center for New Music at the University of Iowa, recipient of the University of Iowa Award (2009). He studied at the University of Iowa with composer Humphrey Searle and pianist Phyllis Sellick and received a Ph.D. degree from University of Iowa.

Before joining Iowa faculty in 1991, he had been teaching at the University of Texas at Arlington, as well as abroad in Nigeria. In 2002, Gompper visited Russia as a Fulbright Scholar, where he spent a year teaching, performing and conducting at the University of Iowa. David actively collaborates with a violinist Wolfgang David from Vienna: they took Gompper's Echoes for violin and piano on a 12-concert tour throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe in 2007, went with Ikon on a second American-European tour with 14 stops, and participated together in numerous other projects. His music was performed at many prestigious venues around the world, such as University of Iowa in New York, University of Iowa in London, and University of Iowa in Karlsruhe, Germany.