David Herman is Trustees Distinguished Professor of Music and University Organist at the University of Delaware, where he served as department chair from 1987 to 2001. A native of Pennsylvania, he earned degrees from Wittenberg University, the University of Michigan and the University of Kansas. He furthered his interest in British music through study in England with the late Lady Jeans. In 2006 he was awarded an Established Artist Fellowship from the Delaware arts council to support his study of Hugo Distler and Jan Bender.

Dr. Herman is the author of The Life and Work of Jan Bender and has written numerous articles for professional journals. His compositions and editions have appeared in the catalogues of five American publishers. His work as an organ teacher has been increasingly focused on the "new organist": attracting new students, of all ages, to organ study. He has served on the faculties of five American Guild of Organists' Pipe Organ Encounters (in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington) and recently made a presentation at the AGO Region III Convention in Washington, entitled Recruiting and Teaching the New Organist. He was invited to present The Organ Works of Samuel Wesley at the 2004 AGO National Convention in Los Angeles. He was a member of the planning committee for the 2002 National AGO Convention in Philadelphia and currently serves as regional Coordinator for Education for the American Guild of Organists.

Dr. Herman has been active as a church musician for 40 years. He is also a recitalist, performing regularly in the United States and abroad. He has played twice in Berlin, in Dublin and in eleven cathedrals throughout England and Wales, including recitals in all four of London's historical foundations: St. Paul's, Westminster and Southwark Cathedrals, and Westminster Abbey, as well as at the Temple Church., St. Michael's Cornhill and the Oxford Town Hall. His recording of organ works by Samuel Wesley at Coventry Cathedral was released in 2003 on the Redcliffe (UK) label. His new recording on the University of Delaware organ will be released in the spring of 2006.

David Herman and his wife, Lauri, have two daughters.