David’s choir at Arval UK, based in Swindon, has recorded an uplifting version of Leonard Cohen’s classic, Hallelujah. Enjoy!
News, concerts and events
New publication: RSCM Carols for Sopranos, Altos and Unison Lower Voices
A fantastic new collection of carols for Advent and Christmas, selected and edited by David, is being published on Monday 14 September. Resources include rehearsal and backing tracks available on demand. This superb new collection of 42 carols by 26 composers has been specially compiled to appeal to church and school choirs of all kinds and sizes. Choirs and those who listen to them will love the 30 new carols in a wide range of tempos and styles (from plainsong to funk), as well as twelve arrangements of well-known favourites.
Available from the RSCM shop
Exultate Singers performs Pearsall’s Lay a Garland
Exultate Singers has released a remotely-recorded video of its members singing Robert Pearsall’s beautiful 8-part madrigal, Lay a garland.
Run by Singers: Lincoln, August 2021
23 – 28 August 2021, Lincoln
Join David and fellow singers for a contemporary choral music Summer School in the beautiful city of Lincoln, featuring music both by established and less well-known living composers. There will be a visit and lecture by one of the featured composers.
The Run by Singers course begins with dinner on Sunday evening, and finishes on Friday where participants perform the new repertoire at a lunchtime concert, followed by afternoon tea by the lake.
The music includes:
Eric Whitacre Sainte Chapelle
Janet Wheeler Beati Quorum via
James MacMillan The Gallant Weaver
Bob Chilcott Like a singing bird
Bob Chilcott Lovely tear of lovely eye
Judith Weir Drop down ye heavens from above
David Ogden All shall be well
Morten Lauridsen Sure on this shining night
Philip Moore Morning Prayers
Ian Carpenter Ave Verum
David Bednall The souls of the righteous
James Whitbourn Pure river of the water of life
Billy Joel And so it goes
For full details and to book, visit www.runbysingers.org. Bookings open on 8 January 2021.
Exeter Festival Chorus: Saints & Angels
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
Exultate Singers: Lux Aeterna
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
Exultate Singers’ tour of Portugal
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
City of Bristol Choir: Sing of Love
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
High Sheriff’s Concert 2019
Wednesday 19 June at 7.30pm, Bristol Cathedral
David is conducting this year’s High Sheriff’s Concert in 2019 and has been commissioned to write a work which will receive its premiere at the event. The piece, Every breath a song, sets words by the Benedictine Sister, Delores Dufner from Minnesota, USA. David will conduct a chorus of 170 voices made of singers from Bristol Outh Choir, Exultate Singers, and the Bristol-based gospel choir Renewal Choir. Together they will perform a new work by the composer Toby Young and librettist Jennifer Thorp, As One, which celebrates the history and diversity of Bristol. Exultate Singers will also perform Tallis’ iconic 40-part motet, Spem in alium. More information can be found at www.exultatesingers.org
Walsingham Annual Pilgrimage
David’s White Light Gloria will be sung at the Walsingham Annual Pilgrimage on Monday 27th May in presence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt Rev Justin Welby