David Lombardi studied classical music for many years. During this time, he developed an interest for Irish traditional music, which grew into a passion for music from many different traditions. His focus in the musical traditions of the Celtic countries led him to Ireland, where he attended a four-year course in traditional Irish music at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in the University of Limerick. He quickly came in contact with different genres and styles of music, starting collaborations with internationally renowned artists. Later, he moved to Sweden to deepen his knowledge in Scandinavian traditional music and attended a master course in World Music at the Royal Conservatory in Stockholm.

During the Master studies, he received two scholarships from Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien, reserved to the best students of Swedish Conservatories.

In 2012, he spent three months in India and Nepal where he learned the fundamentals of classical Indian music. He collaborated with Indian and Nepalese musicians, such as Shyam Nepali, Hamid Hussain Khan and Amrita Bera, and recorded Laya Bazaar, a fully improvised album at the Kathmandu Jazz Conservatory.

David’s travels allowed him to get in touch with artists from a variety of traditional music scenes and to start important projects that took him on tours the world over, including a stint with Riverdance in 2014.

Currently, he performs in many groups including folk bands FOURTH MOON and DALLAHAN, electronic trad band EVENT HORIZON and live looping trio MODULƎ.