David Paquette born in Bridgeport, CT is an International Jazz Pianist. He has recorded more than 45 albums, highlights of his career include touring the European Jazz circuit, establishing and directing a seventeen year running annual Jazz Festival on New Zealand’s Waiheke Island

Waiheke Island

Waiheke Island is an island in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand, located about from Auckland.The island is the second-largest in the Hauraki Gulf after Great Barrier Island. It is the most populated, with nearly 8,000 permanent residents plus another estimated 3,400 who have second or holiday homes...

, and years as the Musical Director for Sydney Australia's Four Seasons Hotel.

Musical career

David's first steps as a professional musical saw him playing ski resorts in Colorado in the early 1970s.

In 1984 David toured as the Musical Director for Spike Milligan

Spike Milligan

Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan Hon. KBE was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor. His early life was spent in India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the...

throughout Australia. Over this period David travelled to New Zealand to play. Taken with the beauty of Waiheke Island David returned to New Zealand to live.

David devotes a lot of his time to his Charitable Trust, the “Paquette Jazz Foundation” which supports both upcoming and existing talent through a scholarship, mentoring program and a musician’s residence retreat on Waiheke Island.

David is represented by Bring It On Records based in Auckland, New Zealand