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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

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

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