For over three decades, David Greenberg has enjoyed a double career as a Baroque  violinist and Cape Breton-style fiddler. His fluency and experience in these two genres make him uniquely qualified to interpret the wild music of 18th-century Scotland. David is a graduate of Indiana University’s Early Music Institute (now called Historical  Performance Institute), where he studied with Stanley Ritchie, Elisabeth Wright, and Thomas Binkley.  

He has performed, taught, and recorded in North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and the Far East. David has performed with Tafelmusik, Red Priest,  Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, Concerto Caledonia, Apollo’s Fire, Ensemble Caprice, La Nef, Toronto Consort, Seattle Baroque, Les Voix Humaines, Musica Pacifica, Ferintosh, Chris Norman, Suzie LeBlanc, and Doug MacPhee. He has recorded over 80 CDs, including with most of these ensembles and collaborators, as well as three  groundbreaking Scottish-Cape Breton-Baroque recordings with his own ensemble Puirt A Baroque in the 1990s.  

David co-authored The DunGreen Collection (1996), an influential treatise on Cape Breton  fiddling. He is also a composer and arranger. Many of his tunes have been recorded by  Cape Breton musicians such as Buddy MacMaster, Carl MacKenzie, Jerry Holland, and The Rankins.  

He enjoys sharing his passion and knowledge about Baroque and Cape Breton music in workshop settings, including his monthly live-streamed Cape Breton teaching session called Hobbit House Session, his ongoing video tutorial series Cape Breton Pocket Companion, and his intensive online courses Cape Breton Deep-Dive, Making Tunes with Intention, and Cape Breton–Baroque Integration.