Conductor and composer
David’s setting of the Trisagion is sung as part of a special virtual reality 360 service. Prayers at the Foot of the Cross, filmed in the 12th Century Chapter House of Bristol Cathedral, features a mixture of prayers, music from the choir of Bristol Cathedral and moments of silent contemplation.
The service is available to view online at the link below. More information can be found at the Church of England website.
Sunday 18th to Saturday 25th September, Toledo, Spain
Join David for a week’s singing holiday in Toledo, exploring six centuries of Spanish and English choral music.
Organised by Run By Singers, the holiday is based in the cultural – and former imperial – capital of Spain. With fine examples of Roman, Moorish and Christian art and architecture, this walled city of Don Quixote and El Greco is only an hour away from Madrid.
For more information, visit www.runbysingers.org
Saturday 14 May at 7.30pm, St George’s Bristol
Exultate Singers and Bristol Ensemble join forces to perform Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Bach’s crowning achievement which expresses the full range of human emotions from intense sadness to great joy and zest for life.
Tickets £14 to £28, available from St George’s Bristol box office
Sunday 24 April at 3pm, Westminster Abbey
David conducts Exultate Singers singing evensong in Westminster Abbey. The service includes David’s anthem Every breath a song, written for the High Sheriff’s Concert in Bristol in 2019, and Roxanna Panufnik’s Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis.
Saturday 2 April at 7.30pm, St George’s Bristol
David conducts City of Bristol Choir and Bristol Ensemble in a performance of Handel’s Messiah, part of the 30th anniversary celebrations of the choir.
Tickets £18 to £30, available from St George’s Bristol box office
Saturday 12 February at 7.30pm, St George’s Bristol
The virtuosic saxophonist Amy Dickson returns to join Exultate Singers for Saxultate II, to perform spellbinding music for choir and saxophone. The rhythmical and virtuosic pieces feature exciting interplay between choir and saxophone, including arrangements of folk songs from around the British Isles in which the saxophone soars over the choir’s beautiful melodies and sumptuous harmonies.
Tickets £12 to £20 plus booking fee from St George’s box office
Saturday 11th and Wednesday 15th December, St James Priory, Bristol
Exultate Singers returns to St James Priory for the first time since December 2019 to sing carols and Christmas music. Concerts this year are 1 hour 15 minutes with no interval, and with reduced audience capacity. Tickets are available from Exultate Singers’ website.
Friday 12 November at 7pm, Clifton Cathedral
A concert to coincide with the COP26 Climate Change conference in Glasgow featuring the world premiere of Raise a Voice – a rebellious songbook for our times. Commissioned by City of Bristol Choir , this exciting set of songs for a choir of adults and young people combines thought-provoking lyrics by Jennifer Thorp with Toby Young’s energetic, accessible and engaging music to captivate both singers and listeners.
Saturday 16 October at 7.30pm, St George’s Bristol
Exultate Singers returns to the stage of St George’s Bristol in its full glory to perform a programme of choral music spanning 400 years from the early 17th century to the early 21st including David’s anthem Every breath a song, Rheinberger Cantus Missae in E flat, and Bach’s motet Singet dem herrn.
Tickets £15 / £20 from St George’s Bristol box office
Saturday 2 October at 4.30pm and 7.30pm at St Alban’s Church, Westbury Park, Bristol
In a poignant return to the concert platform, City of Bristol Choir marks its 30th anniversary season with a programme that includes the first piece that the choir ever performed – Mozart’s Requiem. The work is full of drama and exquisitely crafted music for soloists, choir and orchestra. Each hour-long performance also includes Mozart’s bite-sized masterpiece, his setting of the Ave Verum, and Elgar’s atmospheric and reflective orchestral work, Sospiri.
Tickets £10 for adults, £5 for students/under 18s from City of Bristol Choir’s box office