David Norville

David A. Norville is a cultural strategist based in Atlanta. Through Focus On Your Art (FOYA), he works with arts and social-impact organizations serving Black communities to build the positioning and communications systems that make their work visible and sustainable. FOYA began in 2015 as an artist collective David formed with fellow Black students at Interlochen Arts Academy. Today its engagements run from short strategy audits to year-round partnerships that pair strategy with content production.

David is one of seven founding members of the Black Orchestral Network (BON), a national collective of Black orchestral musicians pressing American orchestras toward fair hiring and tenure practices. He hosts and produces BON's podcast, Black Music Seen, which documents the lived stories of Black classical musicians. He has hosted Black Music Seen live at SphinxConnect, moderated a 2026 SphinxConnect panel on sustaining arts ventures, and spoken on audition and tenure reform, including to ESSENCE.

As Director of Development & Communications at Project: Music Heals Us, he leads fundraising and narrative strategy for live music programs in hospitals and correctional facilities. His public radio work began at NPR's From the Top, where he spent six years (2016-22) and moved from a work-study role to assistant producer. He then produced Every Voice with Terrance McKnight for New York Public Radio's WQXR (2022-23), a 2024 Webby Honoree and winner of two 2023 Black Podcasting Awards. In 2025 he returned to From the Top to produce talk segments for its Black Voices in Classical Music episode, which also features his playing.

An oboist from Fort Myers, Florida, David has performed with the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra and was a member of Interlochen Public Radio's inaugural Sound Garden Quintet. He is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and Interlochen Arts Academy and a SphinxLEAD Fellow, with recognition from National Arts Strategies, the Sphinx Organization, and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. His Guyanese-American upbringing and a commitment to self-determination and cooperative economics shape how he approaches the work.