David Ogden

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

Saturday 18th May at 7.30pm, Clifton Cathedral, Bristol

David conducts City of Bristol Choir in a concert exploring a mystical and ethereal sound world. The choir is joined by professional percussionist Jeremy Little and organist Richard Johnson to perform works by Morten Lauridsen, James Whitbourn, Edward Bairstow, Anton Bruckner and John Rutter. More information from www.cityofbristolchoir.org.uk. Tickets £15 (£5 under 18s) from Providence Music shop on 0117 922 3686.

BBC Radio 3, Wednesday 3rd and Sunday 7th April 2013

David conducted the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir in a live broadcast of Choral Evening Prayer which included the first broadcasts of Roxanna Panufnik’s Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, Philip Moore’s Easter anthem O filii et filiae and Alleluia, a new anthem by the young composer and member of the choir, Owain Park. The voluntary was Iain Farrington’s virtuosic piece Live Wire which was played by the choir’s organist Daniel Moult. The broadcast is available on the BBC iPlayer until Sunday 14th April. Photograph by Christopher Gray

Photograph: The Telegraph, Monday 4 March

Duke Ellington’s crowning achievement, Sacred Concert, was recreated at Bristol International Jazz and Blues Festival, says Ivan Hewett in The Telegraph. Read the full review here: www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/worldfolkandjazz/9907476/Duke-Ellington-Sacred-Concert-Colston-Hall-Bristol-review.html

Thursday 28 February, 4.30pm David was interviewed about Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert by Sean Rafferty on BBC Radio 3’s Drive Time programme, In Tune. Listen to the broadcast on iPlayer here for a week after the programme