Poetry & Music: Three Decker Launch Event

Pianist, composer, and poet David Leach enjoys a multifaceted career as a performing artist, writer, and educator. As a founder of both the genre-bending violin and piano duo Room to Spare and the jazz ensemble the David Leach Collective, David’s music explores the spaces between jazz, classical, rock, and folk. Their music embodies a poet’s dedication to emotional honesty and expression, enlivened by their adventurous harmonic and rhythmic sensibilities. Their debut record as a leader, The Ground that Holds You as You Fall Forever, featuring Lihi Haruvi, Dor Herskovits, & John Lockwood, was released by Adhyâropa Records in May 2025. Their music has been featured on Apple Music Outer Orbits playlist, as well as ASCAP’s New Music Friday playlist. A recipient of an Avaloch Farm residency, they have also been artist in residence at UC Riverside and Wellesley College. They hold an MFA in Poetry from Boston University, where they studied with Robert Pinsky and Dan Chiasson, and their poetry has been published in The Crab Orchard Review and VESSEL.