He finished his career as a teacher, composer, director, and festival adjudicator as Professor Emeritus of Music at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA.
He held degrees from the University of Miami (FL) 1952 and Ithaca College (NY) 1965 where he studied composition with Warren Benson.
For nearly 30 years Professor Davye was a renowned choral director at University and High School levels.
Before coming to ODU in 1966, Professor Davye was for 11 years a public school music educator at the secondary level.
Listed among many prestigious appearances, his group's broadcast around the world over Voice-of -America Radio; performed in two different years in the New York State Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, and appeared in Concert for the United States Senate in Washington, D.C. For 17 years (1966–83) Professor Davye was the Director of the ODU Concert-Choir.
In 1985 he founded the Composition program at the newly established Governor's School for the Arts, in Norfolk, VA.
Commissioned by the First Lutheran Church, Norfolk, VA, in commemoration of the 500th Anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther
Commissioned for the choirs of St. Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic Church and School, Melvindale, Michigan.
Composed for the February 1–8, 1996 appearances in Italy at St. Peter's, Basilica-Vatican City, Rome for the high Mass with Pope John Paul II, at the Basilica of St. Francis-Assisi and the church of St. Ignatius Loyola- Rome TENEBRAE FACTAE SUNT - Darkness Fell on the Earth -1960 (AMP) for Men's Chorus