David Hogan Smith is the founder and director of The King's Trumpetts and Shalmes, a four-member ensemble which performs music of the Renaissance for shawm band. Its repertoire extends from the late fourteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century, utilizing early wind
instruments such as shawms, sackbuts, recorders, and crumhorns. The King’s Trumpetts and Shalmes performs regularly throughout the San Francisco Bay area. Hogan Smith has compiled, arranged and published an extensive collection of printed music for shawms, brass, crumhorns, recorders, oboes, and mixed instruments under The King's Trumpetts and Shalmes Music Editions. He is an accomplished musician and reed maker, who has also published two scholarly works: Reed Design for Early Woodwinds which has been hailed as an exhaustive and well-researched reed handbook for Renaissance wind instruments; and Trombone Technique in the Renaissance: a discussion of the acoustic design and usage of the trombone during the 16th and 17th centuries. Mr. Smith is also a member of and has recorded with the Festival Consort, which released Renaissance Glory: Christmas with the Festival Consort in 2006. He lives in San Francisco.