He is a French horn player who earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s of Music degrees at the University of Wisconsin and has gone on to take further studies for his DMA at Yale University.
He went on to become a solo horn with the Lincoln (Nebraska) and Omaha Symphonies and with the Omaha Opera. He has also been an extra horn at the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. He was also been an original member of Mannheim Steamroller.
As a chamber musician he participated in the Claremont Music Festival, the Grand Teton Musical Festival and in Brazil at the Festival de Inverno. He has also been a member of Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet.
Appearing on many recordings on various labels he has recorded include his own Gone as well as Fresh Aire II, Christmas, Fresh Aire Christmas, Christmas: Sweet Memories and Yellowstone: The Music of Nature by Mannheim Steamroller, Wolf Creek Pass by C.W.McCall, Classical Gas by Mason Williams and Mannheim Steamroller, Alec Wilder: Four Suites by Charles Tibbetts and Friends and Tippett: Sonata for Horns/Schuller Pieces.
In the field of musical education he has taught at the Interlochen Arts Academy and the Federal University of Minas in Brazil after he was the recipient of a Fulbright Award in 1985. He has also been on the faculty of the University of Washington in Seattle as Professor of Horn.
Mannheim Steamroller recordings
Carol of the Birds(Traditional Catlonian)
American Gramaphone records AG 1984 (CD: Christmas)
Coventry Carol (Traditional English/Robert Croo/Thomas Mawdyke)
American Gramaphone records AG 1984 (CD: Christmas)
Deck the Halls (Welsh Traditional)
American Gramaphone records AG 1984 (CD: Christmas)
Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella (Traditional/Emile Blemont/Marc-Antoine Charpentier/Louis-Denis Seguin)(English Translation: Edward Cuthbert Nunn)
American Gramaphone records AG 1984 (CD: Christmas)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Traditional/Anonymous)
American Gramaphone Records AG 1984 (CD: Christmas)
Good King Wenceslas (John Mason Neale)
American Gramaphone records AG 1984 (CD: Christmas)
I Saw Three Ships (Traditional/Anonymous)
American Gramaphone records AG 1984 (CD: Christmas)
Wassail (Anonymous Middle Ages English/Ralph Vaughan Williams)
American Gramaphone records AG 1984 (CD: Christmas)
We Three Kings (Rev. John Henry Hopkins Jr.)
American Gramaphone records AG 1984 (CD: Christmas)
He performs French horn here…
Sources:
- https://soniventorum.com/3.html
- https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/30710/3089.pdf?sequence=1
- https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Kappy,_David
- https://acousticlevitation.org/kappy.html
- https://www.discogs.com/release/5234891-Mannheim-Steamroller-Christmas
- https://www.allmusic.com/artist/david-kappy-mn0001317687
- https://www.discogs.com/artist/1593072-David-Kappy