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 in Bristol.
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)*
- 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)*
- Excerpts from Christmas Oratorio
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*
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*
Howells – 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)
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 (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.