Conductor and composer
Sunday 26th September at 3pm, Weston-super-Mare beach, adjacent to the Grand Pier, BS23 1AL
The first performance of David’s song We are One on the beach at Weston-super-Mare, written especially for this event in collaboration with lyricist Dr Anna Farthing. The song will be performed by newly-formed choir of health professionals within the flags of Luke Jerram’s art installation In Memoriam in a memorable and fitting finale to the Weston Arts + Health Week.
Sunday 26th September at 8.10am
BBC Radio 4 live broadcast from Holy Trinity Church, Westbury-on-Trym for Harvest including David’s new anthem As the light upon the river.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00101jf
15 December 2020, online broadcast
David conducted Exultate Singers, joined by the baritone Marcus Farnsworth, in a special online concert recreating the event 100 years ago which premiered Ralph Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending.
The Lark Ascending was performed just as it was on 15 December 1920, arranged for solo violin and piano, and realised by renowned violinist Jennifer Pike. Bristol Ensemble and Exultate Singers complete the evening with excerpts from the original programme – Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols, Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins and Parry’s Jerusalem.
The broadcast is available until 15 January to watch on Vimeo – scroll forward to 13 minutes 25 seconds for the opening introduction.
Sunday 20 September, St George’s Bristol
Exultate Singers was delighted to give two concerts in the gardens at St George’s Bristol, its first performances since February. The singers were grouped into bubbles of six and rotated around positions on the veranda and amongst the shrubs, singing a programme of music relating to nature to an audience of 50 at each hour-long concert. The sun shone, and all was right with the world for a couple of hours!
Photo by Evan Dawson
David’s choir at Arval UK, based in Swindon, has recorded an uplifting version of Leonard Cohen’s classic, Hallelujah. Enjoy!
Exultate Singers has released a remotely-recorded video of its members singing Robert Pearsall’s beautiful 8-part madrigal, Lay a garland.
Saturday 23 November 2019 at 7.30pm, St. David’s Church, Exeter
David makes his debut with the Exeter Festival Chorus as Guest Conductor in a programme of English choral music including works by Howells, Britten, Finzi, Harris, Judith Weir, and David’s Angels from the realms of glory alongside interludes of poetry byDryden, Blake and Rossetti. With the tenor Kieran White and organist Peter King. Tickets £18 (students £5, under 18s £1), available from www.exeterfestivalchorus.org.uk
Sunday 10 November at 6pm, St George’s Bristol
In this early evening Remembrance Sunday concert, Exultate Singers performs a programme of music on the theme of light as a symbol of hope and optimism including music by Howells, Roxanna Panufnik, Cecilia McDowall, John Rutter and Nicholas O’Neill. Tickets £12 to £21, available from St George’s box office online and by phone on 0845 40 24 001
Saturday 26 October at 8pm, Lisbon Cathedral
Sunday 27 October at 10.30am, Mosterio do Jeronimos, Lisbon
Tuesday 29 October at 7pm, Faro Cathedral
David conducts Exultate Singers in concerts in Lisbon and Faro Cathedrals, and singing Mass at Mosterio de Jeonimos, Lisbon
Saturday 19 October at 7.30pm, St George’s Bristol
David conducts the 100 singers of City of Brsitol Choir and professional orchestra The Bristol Ensemble in a rapturous celebration of love. The programme includes poems by the ancient Greek female poet Sappho set to music by Jonathan Dove, as well as Vaughan Williams’ ravishing Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and music by Finzi and Byrd. Tickets £15 to £28, available from St George’s box office online and by phone on 0845 40 24 001