David Bui, born in Germany, graduated from the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin and simultaneously made his debut with the Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin in 2017. Since then he continued his studies in the masters program under the guidance of Prof. Christian Ehwald and Prof. Hans-Dieter Baum. The ERASMUS exchange program has led him to the Norwegian Academy of Music where he studied with Prof. Ole Kristian Ruud and Prof. Sigmund Thorp in the fall semester 2019.

In addition to his studies David Bui has participated in several festivals around the world. He took part in the Bartók Festival in Szombathely, Hungary, the Mendelssohn Festival in Hamburg, Germany and the PRISMA Festival in British Columbia Canada, where he was assistant conductor.

Also he was invited to participate in the Pärnu Festival in Tallinn, Estonia, where he studied with Paavo, Neeme and Kristjan Järvi and Leonid Grin and for which he received a scholarship from the DAAD-PROMOS-Project-Sponsorship. Moreover David Bui was one of the few students selected by Maestro Riccardo Muti himself in a live-audition to study with him in the 2019th edition of the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy in Ravenna, Italy.

During his studies David Bui has conducted the Brandenburger Symphoniker, the Karlovarsky Symfonicky Orchestr, the Filharmonia Zielonogórska as the representative of Germany at the Musikfesttage „an der Oder” amongst others. In early 2019 he made his debut with the Hamburger Camerata in the world famous Elbphilharmonie.

Further masterclasses have led him to Maestro Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Prof. Johannes Schlaefli, Prof. Ulrich Windfuhr and Prof. Nicolás Pasquet.

Since 2017 David Bui is artistic director of Neues Kammerorchester Wedding, an ensemble of the music school Fanny Hensel – Berlin.


As of April 2019 David Bui has been a fellow of the Dirigentenforum. He assisted Lothar Zagrosek at the Bundesjugendorchester in January 2020 and was finalist at the Kritsche Orchester ® in Berlin, Germany where he worked with Maestro Lutz Köhler.