David James Nielsen was born in Calgary, AB, Canada, and currently resides in Apopka, FL, USA. David has made several short films since the late 90's, and is also a film composer and a graduate of the prestigious Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program from the University of Southern California.

David has scored or provided music for several film and television productions including SUPER SCIENCE SHOWCASE, THE GUEST LIST, ANNABELLE HOOPER AND THE GHOSTS OF NANTUCKET, RECLAIMING THE BLADE, DATED, TALL SHIPS: THE PRIVATEER LYNX, A TIMELESS JOURNEY, TALES FROM BEYOND, HAUNTING VILLISCA, OVERLAP, THE BIG TABLE, MAN VS. WOMAN, THE LITTLE DOCUMENTARY THAT COULDN’T, and the television series ANIMAL EXPLORATION WITH JAROD MILLER. In 2008, David won the Gold Medal of Artistic Excellence Award for his score to the film MAN VS. WOMAN, and the Bronze Medal for Excellence Award for his score to the film TALES FROM BEYOND at the Park City Film Music Festival. David also has worked in various roles ranging from music score programmer and orchestrator, to additional composer. Some of these titles include the TV series STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE (music score programmer), the television movies SILENT WITNESS (music score programmer), THE TENTH CIRCLE (music score programmer, orchestrator), FLIGHT 93 (music score programmer), FAITH OF MY FATHERS (music score programmer, additional composer), and the National Geographic Special EDEN AT THE END OF THE WORLD (additional composer).