David (Daoure) Diongue is a Baltimore-based Senegalese-American sound essayist, educator, and technologist.
David began learning saxophone and composition from Baltimore’s rich community of musicians. He attended Baltimore School for the Arts and earned his bachelor’s degree in jazz performance at Oberlin College & Conservatory. In addition, he won grants to study jazz in New Orleans and traditional Wolof music in Dakar, Senegal. Throughout this education, his teachers include Carl Grubbs, Kevin Robinson, Dr. Chris Ford, Tim Green, Kidd Jordan, Jamey Haddad, and Gary Bartz.
In addition to working at the Center for Collaborative Arts and Technology and teaching saxophone chamber music at BSA, David continues his artistic practice, evoking his homes of Baltimore and Senegal through sound. His work draws on his formal training as a saxophonist and the self-determining ethos of Black American Music.
