Educator, administrator, percussionist, conductor and composer of classical music.
David Colson is an American educator, administrator, percussionist, conductor and composer of classical music. He is Director of the Western Michigan University (WMU) Irving S. Gilmore School of Music and Professor of Music where he has taught composition, music theory and leads the new music ensemble, Birds on a Wire. He served as Director of the School of Music from 2007 to 2014 and Director of the Gwen Frostic School of Art at WMU from 2017 to 2021. He came to WMU from California State University–Chico, where he taught composition and music theory, chaired the Department of Music and was the David W. and Helen E.F. Lantis University Professor, the university's first endowed professorship.