After a First Prize with honors at the Montreal Academy of Music, he was among the very few performers to be awarded, three years in succession, the major scholarship of the Arts council of Canada. This enabled him to further his studies at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique (C.N.S.M.) of Paris.

After winning the Yehudi MENUHIN and Georges CZIFFRA Foundations Prizes and obtaining the Premier Grand Prix of Concours International de Douai, David Lefèvre then embarked on his career as a soloist: Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Monreal I Musici Orchestra, Symphonic Orchestra of the Balearic Islands, Lisbon Gulbenkian Orchestra, Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, London Mozart Players of London. Among the conductors with whom he has worked are Michel PLASSON, Jonathan DARLINGTON, Lawrence FOSTER, Marek JANOWSKI, Peter OUDJIAN, Théodor GUSCHLBAUER, Matthias BAMERT, Simone YOUNG.

Chamber music is also part of his musical universe. His regular music partners include such renowned performers as Roland PIDOUX, Patrice FONTANAROSA, Mariel NORDMAN, Bruno RIGUTTO, Anne QUEFFELEC, Gary HOFFMAN and Régis PASQUIER. He appears regularly at major festivals in France and abroad (Festival de Besançon, Festival du Domaine Forget in Canada, Printemps des Arts of Monte-Carlo, the Alghero Festival in Sardinia, Budapest Spring Festival, Festival International de Lanaudière in Canada...).

While pursuing his career as a soloist and chamber musician, David Lefèvre was Concertmaster of Toulouse’s Orchestre National du Capitole from 1993 to 1999. He is currently Concertmaster of Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Guest Concertmaster of Gulbenkian Foundation Orchestra (Lisbon, Portugal).

He has been artistic director of the Val d'Isère MusicaVal Chamber Music Festival since 1996.

His recordings, released by Solstice, Sonpact and Zig-Zag Territoires have unanimously been acclaimed by French and international critics. Particularly, his rendering of E.W.KORNGOLD and R.STRAUSS’s violin and piano sonatas, B.BARTOK’s sonata for solo violin or F.SCHUBERT’s The Trout quintet was extremely well-received.

He has been playing often with his brother, the pianist Alain Lefèvre, since 2008 with whom he has both recitals and solo concerts in Europe and in Canada. They have recorded several CDs for the well known Canadian label Analekta. One of these CDs (devoted to the Sonatas of Franck and Lekeu) was highly acclaimed by the critics and awarded in 2009 “Grand Prix de l’Album Classique” in the ADISQ awards gala (Quebec). Another disc recorded by the duo in London, with the London Mozart Players, of the Mendelssohn’s concerto for violin, piano and strings orchestra, was awarded the 2010 best classical recording by the Juno Awards (Canada).

David Lefèvre was associate professor at C.N.S.M. in Paris from 1996 to 2006. He has been coaching the class of first violins with Orchestre Français des Jeunes since 2003.

He currently plays a magnificent violin made by Dalla Costa dating from 1745.