Colombian pianist David Córdoba-Hernández has built a career around performance, collaboration, and teaching, with an active presence in the United States and Latin America. He gave the world premiere of Juan Sebastián Cardona's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the EAFIT-Iberacademy Orchestra under Robert Moody and will perform the U.S. premiere with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra in March 2027.

He has collaborated with artists including Vincent Lucas (Principal Flute, Orchestre de Paris), conductor Malcolm J. Merriweather (Director, New York Philharmonic Chorus), cellist John-Henry Crawford, Grammy-nominated pianist Jonathan King, and violist Amaro Dubois, with whom he recorded viola music by José Elizondo on Centaur Records.

Based in Memphis, Córdoba-Hernández serves as Resident Pianist for the Memphis Symphony Chorus and works regularly with Opera Memphis. He has also served as collaborative pianist at the University of Mississippi and Arkansas State University, and as Assistant Music Director for L'incoronazione di Poppea at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival under baroque specialist Stephen Stubbs.

As a teacher, he has developed Professional Skills of the Collaborative Pianist®, an original curriculum he teaches as Director of Collaborative Piano at the Colchagua Vocal Institute in Chile, alongside undergraduate teaching at institutions across the Midsouth. His teaching spans collaborative piano, music fundamentals, and interpretation coaching for singers and instrumentalists.

Córdoba-Hernández holds the Doctor of Musical Arts with a cognate in Opera Coaching from the University of Memphis. His main teachers include Jonathan Tsay, Cathal Breslin, and Teresita Gómez.