Dr. David R. Erb has taught at New Saint Andrews College since 2008 and is a Senior Fellow of Music and Director of the Conservatory of Music. He earned his DMA in Choral Conducting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2007), an MM in Choral Conducting from Westminster Choir College of Rider University (1997), and a BM in Music Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1992). In addition to teaching music in various K-12 settings, Dr. Erb has taught at Lawrence University and Bucknell University.

In addition to choral conducting, Dr. Erb focuses his teaching on training all Christians to be musically literate in light of scriptural teaching. To this end, he is the director and founder of the NSA Summer Music Camp, the Chenaniah Summer Music Institute, the NSA-ACCS High School Honor Choir, and Collegium Musicum Moscow. Dr. Erb formerly served as a Chief Musician for nearly two decades in CREC churches in Washington and Idaho. He is the composer of Cantica Sanctorum, fifty through-composed psalms plus other hymns and scripture settings and is the co-founder of the music publishing company Praetorius Publications.

David, his wife, Gail, and their three daughters, Kayla, Lydia, and Monica, reside in Moscow, ID.