David is much in demand as a conductor and director of choral and church music workshops, courses and festivals in the UK and abroad. As well as Exultate Singers, he conducts City of Bristol Choir, the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir, Midlands and South West Cathedral Singers, and the youth choir, Bristol Voices. He is Director of Music at the thriving parish church in Westbury-on-Trym, in north Bristol.
David has conducted numerous concerts of all kinds of music, from jazz and songs from the shows to first performances by contemporary composers, along with an extensive repertoire of choral anthems, motets, oratorios and large-scale choral works. In June 2007 he made his debut with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
In the UK, he works extensively with the Royal School of Church Music, and with the BBC in religious broadcasting, conducting BBC TV’s Songs of Praise, BBC Radio 4’s Sunday Worship, BBC Radio 2’s Sunday Half Hour and BBC Radio 3’s Choral Evensong. He has conducted choirs on BBC Radios 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and the World Service. His compositions are sung worldwide and regularly broadcast on BBC radio.
His best-known work, Christ has no body now but yours was chosen by the Archbishop of Canterbury to be included in a radio broadcast in December 2007, and his anthem Love’s redeeming work is done was performed by 250-strong choir in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI as part of a Papal Mass during his visit to the USA in April 2008. The Mass was celebrated by the Pope and a congregation of 40,000 in the Washington Nationals Baseball Stadium.