David Maki is a composer and pianist based in the Chicago area.

His music has been described as “fresh and unusual” by All Music Guide, “vivid, introspective” by American Record Guide, and “meditative and beautiful” by Fanfare Magazine.

David Maki enjoys finding inspiration from nature, literature, arts, design, and a wide variety of music in order to compose multi-layered works that speak clearly.

He also seeks to employ harmonic language varies from lushly tonal to jaggedly chromatic all within transparent formal structures.