Mr. Schrader has appeared at numerous music festivals throughout the United States and Europe, most recently as the Artist of the Year at the Oulunsalo Soi Music Festival in Oulu, Finland. In May of 2002 Mr. Schrader will perform five concerts as a guest of the prestigious Irving Gilmore Keyboard Festival, performing separate concerts on organ, harpsichord and clavichord. He has performed also at the Aspen Music Festival, the Michigan Mozartfest performing with Roger Norrington, and the Connecticut Early Music Festival. He has performed as soloist and conductor at the Woodstock Mozart Festival and the Manitou Music Festival. In summer of 2002 Mr. Schrader will appear as a soloist at the Ravinia Festival under the direction of Nicholas Mc Geghan.

A resident of Chicago, Mr. Schrader leads an active musical life at home. He performs regularly with Music of the Baroque, the Newberry Consort, the Chicago Baroque Ensemble, the Rembrandt Chamber Players, and Bach Week in Evanston. Mr. Schrader has appeared with the Chicago Chamber Musicians, the Contemporary Chamber Players, and the City Musick. He is a frequent guest on WFMT radio (Chicago) on record and in live broadcasts from WFMT's studio. For 20 years, he has been the organist of the Church of the Ascension, whose liturgies command a national reputation for musical integrity.  Mr. Schrader's recitals have been heard in the U.S.A., Mexico, Canada, Europe, and Japan.

Mr. Schrader's recordings include concerti of J. S. Bach with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra for the Intercord label, and continuo for Sir Georg Solti's "Creation" (both recordings), "St. Matthew Passion" and "Messiah" for the London label. He has many releases of solo repertoire on the Cedille label, including the music of Bach, Soler, Franck Vivaldi, Dupre and Domenico Scarlatti. His recording of Soler "Fandango & Sonatas" was described thus "We have never heard a more beautiful, natural, realistic harpsichord sound. The playing? Excellent ... There is no better recording on CD" (American Record Guide). "The popular ‘Fandango’ has perhaps never received so exhilarating a reading" (Chicago Tribune). His recording of J. S. Bach "Fantasies & Fugues" "captures the sense of improvisatory, virtuosic energy that is to be found so plentifully in this music." (Continuo) Mr. Schrader has completed a recording project with Grant Park Symphony of music for organ and orchestra by American composers scheduled to be released in May 2002. Mr. Schrader has also recorded for the Centaur and CRI labels. 

Mr. Schrader is on the faculty of Roosevelt University Chicago College of Performing Arts Music Conservatory for performance and academic studies. He holds a Bachelor of Music in piano and a Bachelor of Music in organ from the University of Colorado. From Indiana University he received the coveted Performer's Certificate as well as a Doctor of Music degree. His principal teachers have been Storm Bull, Abbey Simon, Anthony Newman and Everett Jay Hilty. A winner of the Music Teachers' National Association Competition in Organ Playing, Schrader has also been a finalist in the Clarence Mader Competition, The American Guild of Organists' Competition, as well as the Erwin Bodky Competition. He is listed in Outstanding Young Men of America, International Youth in Achievement and the International Who's Who in Music. 

In 1999, 2000 and in 2001 Mr. Schrader was a bicycle rider in the Heartland Aids Ride, a 500-mile bicycle ride to raise money to help those with HIV and AIDS.

For further information please see Mr. Schrader's website at www.davidschrader.com.