Conductor and composer
Exultate Singers will travel to Italy to give two concerts in Vicenza and Lecco, and sing Mass in Basilica San Marco, Venice.
Saturday 26 October
Evening concert in the Chiesa dei Filippini, Vicenza
Sunday 27 October at 12 noon
Sung Mass in the Basilica San Marco, Venice
Tuesday 29 October
Evening concert in the Basilica San Nicolo, Lecco
Saturday 12th October at 7.30pm, St James’ Priory, Bristol
As part of the Bristol Festival of Song 2013, Exultate Singers performs an atmospheric programme of music written for the Russian and Greek Orthodox churches, including works by John Tavener, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Chesnokov, Schnittke and Grechaninov.
This is music of pure theatre – passionate, lyrical and hypnotic. Exultate Singers is known for its engaging performances, making use of the building’s spatial effects with singers placed in different positions around the church throughout the concert. For particular pieces of music, the singers encircle the audience, enveloping it with stunning live surround sound, a spellbinding experience.
Tickets are £15 for adults, £13 for concessions, £5 for students in full time education and £2 for under 18s. Buy online from the Exultate Singers’ shop or telephone the box office Opus 13 on 0117 942 8779, open from 9am until 5.30pm, Monday to Saturday
Sunday 11th – Friday 16th August, Prague, Czech Republic
David conducts the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir in three concerts in Prague, Teplice and Jičín during the choir’s Summer Course tour of the Czech Republic. The choir, accompanied by organist Daniel Moult, will also sing Mass and give a recital at St Vitus’ Cathedral in Prague. Vocal coach Hilary Llystyn Jones will work with the singers alongside David on the tour.
Monday 12 August at 7pm – Concert in Church of St John the Baptist, Teplice
Tuesday 13 August at 7pm – Concert the Church of St Igantius, Jičín
Wednesday 14 August at 6pm – Concert in the Church of the Holy Saviour, Prague
Thursday 15 August at 6pm – Sung Mass in St Vitus’ Cathedral, Prague
28 June – 4 July David is conducting an Arts Festival at the North London Collegiate School in Jeju, South Korea including a performance of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana
Saturday 20th July 2013 at 7.30pm, Clifton College Chapel, College Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 3JH
In this special concert for the Bristol Shakespeare Festival, Exultate Singers performs settings of Shakespeare texts by Ralph Vaughan Williams and the contemporary Finnish composer Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, there’s a celebration of Benjamin Britten’s 100th birthday with performances of his Rejoice in the Lamb and Hymn to St Cecilia and music by Parry, Whitacre, Elgar, Howells, together with James MacMillan’s remarkable setting of the Miserere.
Tickets £15 (£13 concessions, £5 full time students, £2 young people under 18) available to buy online from www.exultatesingers.org/shop , or buy by phone from Providence Music shop on 0117 927 6536 (card payments accepted)
Friday 21st June at 7.30pm, St James Priory, Bristol
The talented singers of the Bristol Schools Chamber Choir inject youthful spirit into a delightful programme: Haydn’s uplifting and joyful setting of the Mass with orchestral accompaniment, and Handel’s bright and triumphant Coronation anthem, The King Shall Rejoice together with popular pieces for choir and solo songs and arias. Performed in the beautiful setting of St James Priory, Bristol’s oldest building. Tickets available on the door: £8 for adults, free for under 18s
Wednesday 8th May, Colston Hall, Bristol
David conducts the Bristol Ensemble and a chorus of 200 voices from Bristol Choral Society, City of Bristol Choir and Exultate Singers in a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The iconic work completes the Bristol Ensemble’s 18 month Beethoven Symphonies Series. Tickets £27 / £24 / £19 / £14 for adults, £8 for under 26 year olds, £1 for under 18s from Colston Hall box office on 0117 922 3686 or online
Release date: 14 April 2013
David conducted the Royal Mail Choir in a charity single of Abide With Me recorded with X Factor winner Joe McElderry. Royal Mail will donate £1 to Prostate Cancer UK for every download. Royal Mail Group and its employees have so far raised around £800,000, including matched funding, for Prostate Cancer UK since the charity partnership launched last year. The single is available to download from iTunes and Amazon and the Royal Mail will donate £1 to Prostate Cancer UK for every download up to £100,000
Release date: 4 April 2013
The Heart’s Voice is the latest CD from the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir, conducted by David Ogden and accompanied by organist Daniel Moult. The CD includes contemporary church music by Thomas Hewitt Jones, Philip Wilby, Philip Moore, Alan Spedding, Owain Park, David Ogden, Malcolm Archer and a setting of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis commissioned by the choir from James Whitbourn. Ten of the fourteen tracks are premiere recordings, emphasising the choir’s commitment to, and skill in, performing contemporary music. CDs are on sale now at £10 available online from www.rscmmyc.org.uk