David studied conducting with George Hurst, Norman Del Mar, Michael Rose and Adrian Leaper and choral conducting with 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, stately homes, prisons, theatres, gardens, shopping centres, restaurants, pubs, golf clubs, schools, car showrooms, hotels, farmer’s markets, hospitals, TV and recording studios, Royal Mail sorting offices, underground stations, zoos, marquees and on boats, in the UK, Poland, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, USA, Portugal, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, Switzerland, Philippines, and Hungary.
Choral Repertoire
Along with hundreds of motets, anthems and choral pieces David has also conducted the following major choral works.
* denotes several 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
- Jesu meine Freude (BWV 227)
- Singet dem Herrn (BWV 225)*
- Komm, Jesu Komm (BWV229)*
- Lobet den Herrn (BWV230)*
- Excerpts from Christmas Oratorio
Beethoven
- Symphony No 9 ‘Choral’
Bernstein
- Chichester Psalms*
- Missa Brevis*
Borodin – Polovtsian Dances
Brahms
- Ein Deutsches Requiem*
- Liebeslieder Waltzer
Britten
- St Nicolas
- Choral Dances from Gloriana*
- Cantata Misericordium
- Ceremony of Carols (3 part & 4 part)*
- Hymn to St Cecilia
- War Requiem
Bruckner
- Requiem
- Libera Me
Nick Burt – Pastorale (1st performance)
Copland - In the Beginning
Corigliano - Fern Hill
Dubois – Seven Last words From The Cross
Durufle - Requiem*
Petr Eben
- Prague Te Deum
- Bitter Earth
Ellington – Sacred Concert * (incl. live Radio 3 and 4 broadcasts)
Elgar
The Apostles
The Kingdom
The Dream of Gerontius*
Fanshawe – African Sanctus
Faure
- Requiem*
- Cantique de Jean Racine*
Finzi
- Magnificat*
- Requiem da camera*
- Lo the full final sacrifice*
Gershwin - Concert Suite from Porgy and Bess
Ginastera – Lamentations*
Goodall – Eternal Light
Gorecki – Totus tuus*
Grier – Sword in the Soul
Handel
- Messiah*
- Samson
- Dixit Dominus*
- Dettingen Te Deum
- Zadok the Priest*
- The King shall rejoice*
- Let thy hand be strengthened
- My heart is inditing
Haydn
- Creation
- Nelson Mass
- St Nicolas Mass*
Hewitt Jones - The Same Flame (World Premiere)
Howells
- Hymnus Paradisi (Bristol Premiere)
- Requiem*
Janacek
- Ave Maria
- Hospodine
- Otcenas*
Kodaly – Missa Brevis*
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)
Lauridsen
- Lux aeterna
- Midwinter Songs*
William Lloyd Webber – The Saviour
Jaakko Mäntyjarvi – Shakespeare Songs
James MacMillan
- Seven Last Words From The Cross*
- Cantos Sagrados*
Cecilia McDowall
- Ave Maris Stella
- Christus natus est*
Monteverdi – Vespers of the Virgin Mary 1610*
Mozart
- Mass in C minor*
- Requiem*
- Solemn Vespers*
Nystedt – Stabat Mater*
Ogden
- Cabot Circus Cantata*
- Angels*
Orff – Carmina Burana*
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)
Poulenc – Gloria*
Purcell
- Ode on St Cecilia’s Day 1692
- The Fairy Queen (excerpts)
- Dido and Aeneas
Rachmaninov – Vespers*
Respighi
- Lauda per La Nativita del Signore
Rutter
- Gloria *
- Requiem*
- Winchester Te Deum *
Scarlatti
- Stabat Mater*
- St Cecilia Mass*
Schubert – Mass in G*
Schutz – St Luke Passion
Shostakovich
- Two Russian folksongs
- Ten Russian Folksongs (UK premiere in Russian)
Szymanowski – Stabat Mater
Tallis – Spem in alium 40 part motet (including live Radio 4 broadcast)*
Tavener – Svyati*
Tippett – Five Spirituals from A Child of our Time*
Tormis – Four Estonian Lullabies
Vaughan Williams
- A Vision of Aeroplanes*
- Five Mystical Songs*
- In Windsor Forest
- Mass in G minor*
- Serenade to Music*
- Toward the Unknown Region
Verdi – Te Deum
Vivaldi
- Dixit Dominus
- Gloria*
- Magnificat*
Walton
- Coronation Te Deum*
- Belshazzar’s Feast*
- The Twelve
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
Philip Wilby – Brontë Mass (World premiere of brass band version)
Charles Wood – St Mark Passion
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
G. Gershwin
- Rhapsody in Blue*
Haydn
- Symphonies no 6, 7, 49, 99, 104
W.A Mozart
- Violin Concerto no 3 in G*
- Overture to The Magic Flute*
- Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
- Symphonies nos 40, 41
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*-