David studied conducting with George Hurst, Norman Del Mar, Michael Rose and Adrian Leaper and choral conducting with Simon Johnson, Laszlo Heltay and Peter Erdei. Since 1985 he has been conducting choir and orchestras of many different shapes and sizes.
He has conducted choirs in concert halls, cathedrals, churches, chapels, monasteries, convents, castles, conference centres, stately homes, prisons, theatres, gardens, living rooms, woods, shopping centres, caves, crematoria, restaurants, pubs, golf clubs, schools, car showrooms, business clubs, air shows, hotels, aircraft hangars, airports, farmer’s markets, building sites, solar-powered sheds, hospitals, TV and recording studios, Royal Mail sorting offices, underground stations, racecourses, zoos, marquees and on boats, in the UK, Poland, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, USA, Portugal, Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Holland, Thailand, South Korea, Belgium, Slovakia, Austria, Luxembourg, Spain, Switzerland, Philippines, and Hungary.
Highlights include
Colditz Castle
Abbey Road Recording Studios
St Paul’s Cathedral
Upper Basilica in Assisi
Lambeth Palace
Cheltenham Racecourse
Prague Cathedral
St Mark’s Basilica, Venice
NEC, Birmingham
Washington Cathedral
Children in Need Children’s choir 2017 from Concorde Museum.
Choral Repertoire
Along with thousands of motets, anthems and choral pieces David has also conducted the following major choral works.
* denotes mulitple performances
Allegri – Miserere*
J.S. Bach
– St Matthew Passion (in German and English)*
– St John Passion (in German and English)*
– Mass in B minor*
– Cantata no 21 – Ich hatte viel Bekummernis
– Cantata no 51 – Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen
– Magnificat*
– Der Geist hilft (BWV 226)*
– Jesu meine Freude (BWV 227)
– Singet dem Herrn (BWV 225)*
– Komm, Jesu Komm (BWV229)*
– Lobet den Herrn (BWV230)*
– Excerpts from Christmas Oratorio
Ludwig van Beethoven
– Symphony No 9 ‘Choral’
Leonard Bernstein
– Chichester Psalms*
– Missa Brevis*
Nick Bicât – Requiem
Richard Blackford – Pietà
Alexander Borodin – Polovtsian Dances
Johannes Brahms
– Begräbnisgesang
– Ein Deutsches Requiem*
– Liebeslieder Waltzer
Benjamin Britten
– St Nicolas
– Rejoice in the Lamb* (including orchestral accompaniment by Imogen Holst)
– Choral Dances from Gloriana*
– Cantata Misericordium
– Ceremony of Carols (3 part & 4 part)*
– Hymn to St Cecilia*
– War Requiem
Anton Bruckner
– Requiem
– Libera Me,
– Mass no 2. in Em
Nick Burt – Pastorale (1st performance)
Solfa Carlile – Between earth and sky (1st performance)
Castelnuovo- Tedesco – Romancero Gitano*
Bob Chilcott
– Advent Antiphons
– Canticles of Light
– Dances of Time*
– St John Passion*
Aaron Copland – In the Beginning*
John Corigliano – Fern Hill
Harold Darke – As the leaves fall
Henri Dubois – Seven Last words From The Cross
Francesco Durante – Magnificat
Maurice Duruflé – Requiem*
Jonathan Dove
– For an unknown soldier
– Sappho Sings (2nd performance)
– Odyssey (World Premiere)
– Our revels now are ended.
– There was a child
–The Passing of the Year*
Petr Eben
– Prague Te Deum
– Bitter Earth
Duke Ellington – Sacred Concert * (incl. live Radio 3 and 4 broadcasts)
Edward Elgar
– Great is the Lord
– The Apostles
– The Kingdom
– The Dream of Gerontius*
David Fanshawe – African Sanctus
Iain Farrington – Then Sing we all
Gabriel Fauré
– Requiem*
– Cantique de Jean Racine*
Gerald Finzi
– For St Cecilia* (World premiere of version for tenor solo, choir and organ by Robert Gower)
– Intimations of Immortality
– Lo, the full final sacrifice*
– Magnificat*
– Requiem da camera*
George Gershwin
– Concert Suite from Porgy and Bess
– I got Gershwin – Oratorio of Gershwin songs for massed choir and 16 piece jazz band arr. Ned Bennett (World Premiere)
Alberto Ginastera – Lamentations*
Howard Goodall – Eternal Light
Henryck Gorecki – Totus tuus*
Francis Grier – Sword in the Soul
G.F Handel
– Messiah*
– Samson
– Dixit Dominus*
– Dettingen Te Deum
– Israel in Egypt
– Zadok the Priest*
– The King shall rejoice*
– Let thy hand be strengthened
– My heart is inditing
Naji Hakim – Jesu redemptor omnium
Josef Haydn
– Creation
– Nelson Mass
– St Nicolas Mass*
– Te Deum in C
Thomas Hewitt Jones – The Same Flame (World Premiere)
Gustav Holst – Hymn of Jesus
Herbert Howells
– A Maid Peerless (with orchestra)
– Hymnus Paradisi (Bristol Premiere)
– Magnificat (Collegium Regale) orch. Rutter
– Requiem*
– Take him earth for cherishing*
Leos Janacek
– Ave Maria
– Hospodine
– Otcenas*
Karl Jenkins – The Armed Man
Zoltan Kodaly – Missa Brevis*
Martin Kiskzo
– Hearts of Earth and Fire (1st performance, Clifton Cathedral commission)
– A Radius of Curves (1st performance, Brunel 200 commission)
– Sea Star (1st performance, Clifton Cathedral commission)
Morten Lauridsen
– Lux aeterna
– Midwinter Songs*
Kenneth Leighton – Crucifixus pro nobis
Gyorgy Ligeti – Lux aeterna
William Lloyd Webber – The Saviour
Jaakko Mäntyjarvi – Shakespeare Songs
James MacMillan
– Seven Last Words From The Cross*
– Seven Angels
– Cantos Sagrados*
– Miserere*
– Sicut cervus* (World premiere)
Cecilia McDowall
– Ave Maris Stella
– Christus natus est*
– On Angel’s Wing
Claudio Monteverdi – Vespers of the Virgin Mary 1610*
W.A Mozart
– Mass in C minor*
– Requiem*
– Solemn Vespers*
Knut Nystedt – Stabat Mater*
David Ogden
– Cabot Circus Cantata*
– Angels*
Carl Orff – Carmina Burana*
Arvo Pärt – Berliner Messe
Roxanna Panufnik
– Spring
– Westminster Mass* (Special arrangement by the composer, commissioned for Clifton Cathedral)
– All Shall Be Well * (Exultate Singers’ commission, World Premiere)
– Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis* (Exultate Singers’ co-commission, UK Premiere)
– Elegy for Fadima * (Exultate Singers’ commission, World Premiere)
Hubert Parry – Blest pair of sirens*
Francis Poulenc – Gloria*
Henry Purcell
– Ode on St Cecilia’s Day 1692
– The Fairy Queen (excerpts)
– Dido and Aeneas
Sergei Rachmaninov – Vespers*
Ariel Ramirez – Misa Criolla
Otto Respighi
– Lauda per La Nativita del Signore
John Rutter
– Gloria *(Brass and Organ and Full orchestra versions)
– Requiem*
– Winchester Te Deum *
Domenico Scarlatti
– Stabat Mater*
– St Cecilia Mass*
Franz Schubert – Mass in G*
Heinrich Schutz – St Luke Passion
Dmitri Shostakovich
– Two Russian folksongs
– Ten Russian Folksongs (UK premiere in Russian)
Karl Szymanowski – Stabat Mater
Thomas Tallis – Spem in alium 40 part motet (including live Radio 4 broadcast)*
John Tavener – Svyati*
Michael Tippett – Five Spirituals from A Child of our Time*
Veljo Tormis – Four Estonian Lullabies*
Ralph Vaughan Williams
– A Vision of Aeroplanes*
– Benedicite
– Dona nobis pacem*
– Five Mystical Songs*
– In Windsor Forest
– Mass in G minor*
– Serenade to Music*
– Toward the Unknown Region*
Guiseppe Verdi – Te Deum
Antonio Vivaldi
– Beatus Vir
– Dixit Dominus
– Gloria*
– Magnificat*
William Walton
– Coronation Te Deum*
– Belshazzar’s Feast*
– The Twelve
Raymond Warren- Cello Requiem for cello and choir (World premiere)
Judith Weir – Praise him with trumpets
James Whitbourn – The Canticles of Mary and Simeon (Eboracum) *- commissioned by the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir, premiere in York Minster and first broadcast on BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong, August 2011
– Luminosity
Philip Wilby
– Brontë Mass (World premiere of brass band version)
– Te Deum (Premiere of organ, brass quintet and percussion version)*
Charles Wood – St Mark Passion
Toby Young
– As One* – for Chamber choir, Youth choir and Gospel choir (World premiere)
– Dancing Star (World premiere)
– Wanderlust (World premiere)
– Greek Love Songs (World premiere)
– Raise a Voice – A rebellious songbook for our time (World premiere)
Also performances of a wide range of anthems, canticles, motets, secular partsongs, opera choruses and arrangements of music from the shows, jazz standards.
Orchestral Repertoire
J.S. Bach
– Brandenburg Concerto no 3 in G
Beethoven
– Symphony no 4 in Bb
– Symphony no 7 in A
– Symphony no 9 in Dm ‘Choral’
Brahms
– Violin Concerto in D
– Symphony no 2 in D*
Copland
– Appalachian Spring*
– Fanfare for the Common Man*
Debussy
– Prelude d’apres-midi d’une faune*
De Falla
– El amor brujo
Dvorak
– Cello Concerto in Bm
– Symphony no 9 in Em (New World)
Elgar
– Sospiri
G. Gershwin
– Rhapsody in Blue*
Haydn
– Symphonies no 6, 7, 49, 99, 104
Felix Mendelssohn
– Hebrides Overture
W.A Mozart
– Violin Concerto no 3 in G*
– Overture to The Magic Flute*
– Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
– Symphonies nos 40 & 41
Schönberg and Boubil arr Cameron
Les Miserables – Symphonic Suite
D. Shostakovich
– Piano Concerto no 2*
Stravinsky
– The Soldier’s Tale
R. Vaughan Williams
– English Folk Song Suite*
– Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis*
– Fantasia on Greensleeves
– The Lark Ascending*-