Davis studied at the
Centenary College of Louisiana, conducting with Julia Brasher Thorn. He graduated in 2003 as Bachelor of Sacred Music. He became a Fellow of Melodious Accord in 2004. He has been church musician at St. Andrew Methodist Church in
Plano, Texas. In 2018, he composed
Return to Me, a new choral work for the
Holy Week of c. 40 minutes. It follows the
Stations of the Cross, with text by Terry W. York. The choir is supported by cello and piano. Music composed by Davis has been performed throughout the U.S., Europe, South Africa and South America, by groups such as
Conspirare and
Voces8. He has written arrangements for Voces8, for example "Joy to the World" and other
Christmas carols for a 2021 video with orchestra. His arrangement was credited to feature "brassy exuberance worthy of Bernstein", new "harmonic territory", "sweeping harps", "roving bass lines" and "asymmetrical sways".
Stardust Davis composed a
motet,
Stardust, for eight voices
a cappella on a commission from Voces8. In 2022, the group named its tour program after the work. A reviewer of a concert at
Wilhering Abbey near Linz wrote that the composition left "a lasting impression" (), and summarized the content: "It is about the transience of life, the disintegration into the 'meteorite dust' that gives it its title, but which true love transforms again." () A reviewer of the concert at
St. Martinus, Hattersheim, as part of the
Rheingau Musik Festival, noted that the music created an architecture of layers of meditative foils of sound. == References ==