Mr. Hodgkins attended the Aspen Music Festival on three separate occasions, twice with fellowships in choral and orchestral conducting, and once as assistant conductor of the Aspen Choral Institute. He also attended the Sandpoint Music Festival as an orchestral conducting fellow. He has served as choral director for the Pennsylvania Opera Theatre in Philadelphia and the Monadnock Music Festival, and as interim director for the Back Bay Chorale. He has taught in the music theory department at Temple University, has served on the choral faculties of the New England Conservatory of Music and the University of Massachusetts/Lowell, and has been guest conductor at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. Mr. Hodgkins has also made numerous appearances as music festival conductor and as conducting clinician.

From 1989 through the spring of 1999, Mr. Hodgkins was Director of Choral Activities at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. During that time, he also led Convivium Musicum, an 18-voice Renaissance music ensemble. Since 1989, he has conducted the orchestra and choruses of the Commonwealth School, a private high school in Boston's Back Bay, in music ranging from a cappella works to oratorio. He also coaches chamber music and teaches college-level music theory and ear training.

In 1992, Mr. Hodgkins became the artistic director of Coro Allegro, a Boston-based, 55-voice ensemble. Michael Manning, classical music critic for the Boston Globe, calls Coro Allegro "one of Boston's most accomplished choruses," and Lloyd Schwartz, music critic of the Boston Phoenix, terms Coro Allegro "a serious and accomplished outfit that, under director David Hodgkins, has been doing some of the city's most interesting choral repertoire--and superbly."