David Belcher began playing the guitar at age seventeen, classical at age twenty. He did his formal studies in classical guitar with Norman Ruiz in Chicago, performing the first ever student guitar recitals at his undergraduate university. For three years straight he was selected to perform in the annual Commencement Concert of the same institution, where student soloists perform with the university orchestraplaying the second movement from Mario Castelnuovo-Tedescos first guitar concerto in D, Antonio Vivaldis mandolin concerto in G, and the second movement with cadenza from Heitor Villa-Loboss guitar concerto, respectively.

David has participated in masterclasses with world-renowned guitarists such as Antonio Lpez-Palacios, Costas Cotsiolis, Leo Brouwer, and Manuel Barrueco. At the 2002 Crdoba guitar festival in Crdoba, Spain, he was selected to perform Leo Brouwers Tres Apuntes in the student concert. When David does not have a guitar in his hands, he enjoys birding, photography, and philosophy and theologyand he will be moving with his family to Manhattan, New York City, in the fall to continue doctoral-level theological studies.