David is a freelance musican working with many prominent groups in the West Midlands - 2025 engagements have included the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Birmingham Opera Company, University of Birmingham, and Solihull Choral Society. Recent concert highlights include the three Chorals of César Franck at Coventry Cathedral, and the Saint-Saëns 'Organ' symphony with Solihull Symphony Orchestra. As acting assistant director of music at Coventry Cathedral, David was principal accompanist to all the Cathedral choirs for the 2024-2025 academic year.
David graduated from Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he was a choral scholar and accompanied the choir on the organ in services and concerts. He gained the ARCO diploma in his final year, winning the Sawyer and Durrant prize for the practical part of the examination. Following university, David spent a year as organ scholar at Tewkesbury Abbey, where he worked with Schola Cantorum and the many choirs of Dean Close School. More recently, he moved to Birmingham to study for an MA in conducting at the University, taught by Simon Halsey, Julian Wilkins and Simon Carrington. He often appeared as a conductor and accompanist with all the university choirs, and as a singer in the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, performed under Simon Rattle, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Kazuki Yamada, and many more of the world’s leading conductors.
David has served as director of music at the churches of St James, Cambridge, and Holy Trinity, Sutton Coldfield. As head of choral music at Solihull School, he directed the 90-strong chapel choirs in weekly evensong, conducted major repertoire such as the requiems of Faure and Duruflé, and trained the choristers for external engagements such as Mahler's second symphony and a world premiere alongside the King's Singers. As an orchestral conductor, he has performed repertoire such as Haydn's Creation, symphonies by Beethoven and Mozart, and concertos by Elgar and Dvořák. In the theatre, he has conducted a variety of operas and musicals. David continues his organ studies at Yale School of Music.
