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A feast for the senses - Exultate Singers at St George's

Tallis' 40-part motet, Barber's own choral arrangement of his Adagio for Strings, Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music and music by Byrd, Pearsall, Gabrieli, Victoria, George Shearing and Jaakko Mäntyjärvi all appear on this programme of music to excite the senses at St George's, Bristol on Saturday 13th February. More information >

Brass & Choral Spectacular with the Flowers Band - Colston Hall, Bristol

David conducts the Flowers Band, one of the UK's top 20 brass bands, in a concert with a chorus of 120 singers from City of Bristol Choir and Exultate Singers in Bristol's Colston Hall on Saturday 6th March. The programme includes Philip Wilby's Brontë Mass alongside music from the movies including suites from Harry Potter, James Bond and The Mission. Music for brass at its most flamboyant! More information >

Song of Ruth now available on iTunes

David's Song of Ruth, recorded by Exultate Singers, is now available to download at iTunes

David's new book published - Veni Emmanuel: An Advent Sequence of Music and Readings

This new sequence of words and music, which has already sold over 900 copies, contains resources for an Advent service based on the 'O' Antiphons. Following the success of The Way of The Cross, a sequence of music for Passiontide, David has teamed up with Rev Peter Moger to create this new service, published by the RSCM.

The choral music offers great flexibility in a wide range of styles and levels of difficulty for choirs of all standards. The book is priced at £7.95 and is available from the RSCM.

Exultate Singers give world premiere of Roxanna Panufnik commission

David conducted the world premiere of a work by Roxanna Panufnik for double choir and solo cello in a concert marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The piece, All Shall Be Well, is set in Polish, modern English and Middle English, and was premiered by Exultate Singers and the cellist Richard May in the presence of the composer on Sunday 8th November in Clifton Cathedral. The concert also included the UK premiere of Petr Eben's work, Bitter Earth, sung in Czech. Listen to an excerpt of the recording >

David's anthem sung for Pope

David's anthem Love's redeeming work is done was sung at the Papal Mass in Washington DC on 17th April. The Mass was celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI in the newly built Washington Nationals baseball stadium with a congregation of 40,000 in attendance. The Archbishop of Washington wrote to David saying, "Your piece for the Mass that Pope Benedict celebrated helped to make that Eucharistic liturgy beautiful, prayerful and memorable for the tens of thousands people who came to worship and be with the Pope. Thank you for your generous contribution of time and talent."

The anthem was written for the RSCM Bristol Course in 2004 and is published by the RSCM. You too can sing along at home - buy the music here.

For more information about the Pope's visit to Washington including video of the Papal Mass click here. To read a Bristol Evening Post article about the performance, click here.