About Rabbi David Louis

Rabbi David Louis is ordained as a Rabbi in the Kabala and Torah Scribe and General Jewish Law. He currently lectures and teaches in both group and individual settings about Judaism, the Kabala, Jewish philosophy. He has given public classes on Maimonides. He is also taught music.

He studied Sitar with Ali Akbar Khan in San Rafael, California; conducting at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; musical composition at the University of Illinois; and trumpet and symphonic composition at Northwestern University. He’s worked for over two decades as a professional musician, composer, and arranger. In addition, he had art showings in Brussels, New York, New Jersey, and Quebec.

Prior to all of this (in the 90s), he toured the world -- Serbia, Croatia Eastern Europe, South Africa, and the United States -- doing one-man performances of music and storytelling for the Jewish Agency. He even directed the music program at an Experimental High School for Dropouts.

In the 1960s and 70s, he was a member of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. He played Hikirichi in a Gagaku ensemble conducted by a member of the Japanese Imperial Court Orchestra. He conducted the Westwood Chamber Orchestra and the Chamber Music Concerts at the Pasadena Art Museum in California. He soloed with the Peoria Symphony, played the Haydn Trumpet Concerto, and toured Europe. He was a member the of Peoria Symphony Orchestra in Peoria, Illinois. He was also on the television show of “East Meets West.”

His memberships include the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, A.S.C.A.P., and the A.C.U.M - The Israel Society of Composers.