Performance and Recording Career
He debuted at New York City's Town Hall in 1959. Davis made his international debut at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. In 1960, he signed with CBS Records and began a 60 concert cross-country tour. He has toured the world with several major orchestras including the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Spanish National Orchestra. He has performed under such world-famous conductors as Leonard Bernstein, Eugene Ormandy and Lorin Maazel. He is listed in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and has received the Handel Medallion from New York City for contributions to the city's cultural life. He recorded for London Records in the 1970s. Since 1966, Davis has been a professor of music at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.
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