I've traded emails with this guy!

When I was trying to make contact with potentially interested parties in the 9th Congressional District, I came across David Canfield. He sounded like an interesting and faithful man-- a fellow Christian and violinist!

And here he is-- in an article by Arsenio Orteza in World...

...a violinist active in two Bloomington orchestras and a prolific composer of serious music....In 2001 the University of Central Oklahoma hosted a three-day Canfield festival....

From 1978 to 2008, however, Canfield was less known to the classical music world as a composer than as the entrepreneur behind Ars Antiqua, Inc., a rare-classical-album mail-order business and store over which he presided....

As for his own carefully arranged collection of recordings, it takes up several rooms of the house where he lives with his wife Carole. It's so large that the Library of Congress has arranged to buy it in five installments...

So many and varied are Canfield's interests and self-incurred responsibilities that the Indiana University professor Peter Jacobi, upon interviewing him for a public-radio show in 2003, couldn't help asking him about the way he manages his priorities. "Well," replied Canfield, "my No. 1 priority is serving God."...