Dr. David Chapman is currently teaching courses at Rutgers in music history, performance practice, and ethnomusicology.

Chapman is the author of the monograph Bruckner and the Generalbass Tradition (Vienna: Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2010), and is currently preparing an edition of Bruckner’s Annulled Symphony (WAB 100) for the New Anton Bruckner Complete Edition series. He is also the author of A History of the Rutgers University Glee Club (Rutgers University Press, 2020).

Chapman has contributed articles and reviews to various scholarly journals, including Eighteenth-Century Music; Ad Parnassum: A Journal of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music; Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association; and the Galpin Society Journal. He is also an active performer, playing primarily in early music ensembles such as Early Music New York and The American Classical Orchestra on double bass instruments of the appropriate periods.