David Michael Frank is an American music composer and Broadway conductor born and raised in Baltimore. He studied piano and composition at the Peabody Conservatory of Music and was a soloist with the Peabody Orchestra at age 16. He further his studies in Paris and earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University. He conducted The Me Nobody Knows at the Helen Hayes Theater in New York City at twenty-two, becoming the youngest conductor on Broadway at the time. In 1978, he relocated to California to pursue a career in film composition.