Conductor and composer
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
Release date: 18 February 2013
David conducts the choral music in the original cast recordings in this CD compilation which includes music featured in Series 1, the Christmas Special and Series 2 of Call The Midwife. Available from Amazon
Release date: 5th February 2013
Love Abide is a CD of choral works by Roxanna Panufnik on the Warner Classics Label on the theme of spiritual love- celebrating music, texts and chants of a diversity of faiths. As part of the compilation, David conducts Exultate Singers performing Panufnik’s setting of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in which she combines the words of the canticles with the Latin words of the Ave Maria. The work was commissioned jointly between Exultate Singers and St Mark’s Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, USA. The CD was released on 5th February 2013 and is available from Amazon, Crotchet, and Sainsbury’s Entertainment. It is also available to download from iTunes.
Saturday 23rd March at 7.30pm, St George’s Bristol Exultate Singers is joined by one of the world’s leading period instrument ensembles for this concert of baroque music originally written for St Mark’s Venice. Experience the grandeur, opulence and drama of the wonderful multi-choir motets of Gabrieli, Monteverdi, Croce and Rigatti as the sound reverberates around the hall and balconies of St George’s. All the pieces are characterised by flamboyant operatic solos and virtuosic instrumental and choral writing, perfect for this Bristol Baroque Festival. Tickets £11-£21 with discounts for concessions, from St George’s box office on 0845 40 24 001
BBC One, Sunday 10th March at 5.30pm David conducts BBC One’s Songs of Praise in a special programme for Mother’s Day. The music includes David’s Song of Ruth sung by Exultate Singers, and singers from Bristol Schools Chamber Choir and Westbury-on-Trym Parish Choir singing David’s setting of Faith, hope and love. The hymns sung by the congregation at St Alban’s Parish Church in Westbury Park include Now thank we all our God, For Mary mother of our Lord, For the beauty of the earth and John Bell’s Take this moment, sign and space. (Photograph Ken Kay / BBC)
Saturday 2nd March 2013 at 2.15pm David directs a chorus of 180 voices from City of Bristol Choir, Exultate Singers, Bristol Schools Chamber Choir and Kidderminster Choral Society together with the Big Buzzard Boogie Band, vocalist Yolanda Quartey and tap dancer Junior Laniyan in a performance of Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert in Bristol’s first International Jazz & Blues Festival. The performance takes place at the Colston Hall. Tickets £15 for adults, £5 for children under 18 from Colston Hall box office 0117 922 3686.
Saturday 23rd February 2013 at 7.30pm Sensational choral music to excite the senses including Tallis’ 40-part motet Spem in Alium; the sumptuous harmonies of 16th and 17th century motets and madrigals by Monteverdi and Gesualdo, and contemporary works including the premiere of a new commission from Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, James MacMillan’s Miserere Mei and the dramatic Fire Songs by Morten Lauridsen. Tickets are £12-£22 (£2 discount for concessions), and are on sale now from St George’s box office on 0845 40 24 001