David is currently Acting Assistant Director of Music at Coventry Cathedral and Assistant Musical Director of Solihull Choral Society. As a deputy conductor and accompanist, he works with a wide variety of choirs - 2024 engagements have included the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Birmingham Opera Company, University of Birmingham, and Coventry Cathedral Chorus.
David graduated from Selwyn College, Cambridge with a BA in Music. He was a choral scholar in the chapel choir at Selwyn 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 and organist in residence at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, where he accompanied and conducted the many school choirs and Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum. 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 performed as a singer, conductor and accompanist with all the university choirs. As a singer in the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, he performed under Simon Rattle, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Kazuki Yamada, Edward Gardner, 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 and continues his organ study with Daniel Moult at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. As an orchestral conductor, he has performed repertoire such as Elgar’s Sea Pictures and Cello Concerto and Dvořák’s Violin Concerto. He has been musical director for shows such as Iolanthe, Ruddigore, and Kiss Me, Kate; conducted Lampe’s The Dragon of Wantley at the Barber concert hall to national acclaim; and was chorusmaster for Eugene Onegin at West Road Concert Hall. He is a regular participant at Sherborne and Girton summer schools of conducting, taught by Denise Ham, Toby Purser and Dominic Grier.
