Dave Weiss (David G. Weiss) is a Brooklyn based musician, video creator, and composer.  He performs on flutes and woodwinds from all around the world, including American and Celtic flutes & whistles, Duduk and Middle Eastern woodwinds, Asian and African woodwinds, Panpipes, Medieval Recorders, unusual woodwinds (ContraBass Flute, Great Bass Recorder, Ocarinas, Overtone Flutes), and western flutes, saxophones and clarinets.

An experienced remote session musician for almost two decades, Dave records with musical artists all over the world from his own professionally designed recording studio. 

Selected Film: Disney’s Moana (2026), Moana 2, I Tonya, Zoolander 2, Teeth, Where The Wild Things Are, and Disney’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The Rookie, and The Alamo.

Selected TV: several hundred TV commercials with many Super Bowl commercials for Coke, Amazon, Pepsi, Verizon. TV programs Marco Polo, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and American Girl Adventures. Dave also collaborates with artists as a recording engineer and video creator.

Dave performs with Disney's "The Lion King" (the original Broadway production) as a featured orchestral soloist, playing thirteen instruments, and co-orchestrated its “world woodwind” music. Dave has also been involved with over 50 other Broadway musicals, and over his eclectic career he has performed with The Phillip Glass Ensemble, Aretha Franklin, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Roger Waters (Pink Floyd), The Four Tops, and others.

Dave has served as woodwind orchestration advisor for “The Lion King”, “Miss Saigon”, Lin Manuel-Miranda’s “In The Heights”, Sondheim’s “Pacific Overtures”, “Chess”, “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”, and Film/TV, CD, and Web projects

A graduate of Manhattan School of Music (Classical Flute Performance), additional studies at Juilliard, and The Aspen Music Festival (Fellowship/Jazz Saxophone).

Dave lives and works in the NYC area.