BICC Artistic Team

David is a life-long choral singer, and has worked as a choral conductor for all of his adult life. In addition to being Conductor of the Senior Choir of the Blackstone-Ipswich Cambrian Choir, he is currently Musical Director of the Bach Society of Queensland, and Director of Music at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Fortitude Valley. He has also been a regular guest and assisting conductor around Brisbane, including for Brisbane Chorale, the Queensland Choir, Canticum Chamber Choir, the Australian Catholic University Banyo Campus Choir, and various church choirs. David was Musical Director of the Queensland University Musical Society for nearly a decade, and he spent some years as the conductor of the Emmanuel College (University of Queensland) Choir. Nationally, he has served as Assistant Chorus Master to June Tyzack, Richard Swann, Andrew Raiskums, Christie Anderson, and Michael Fulcher at Australian Intervarsity Choral Festivals in Hobart, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane.
David was the recipient of the Seventh National Sydney Symposium Choral Conducting Scholarship, which saw him spend two months of 2015 in the United Kingdom, observing and working with some of the best conductors and choirs in London and Cambridge. Closer to home, he has participated in conducting workshops with the Sydney Chamber Choir and Symphony Australia.
David’s conducting experience spans much of the great choral repertoire, from the Baroque and Classical, the Romantic, to the Modern era. He directed the World Premieres of Matthew Orlovich’s The Blue Gum Forest and Elliot Rentoul’s Love, the Southern Hemisphere Premieres of Karl Jenkins’ Te Deum and Roman Hurko’s Requiem/Panachyda for the victims of Chernobyl, the Australian Premiere of John Tavener’s Mother and Child, and the Queensland Premieres of Karl Jenkins’ Requiem and Arvo Pärt’s Seven Magnificat Antiphons.
In addition to his roles on the podium, David continues to be an active member of Canticum Chamber Choir and Fusion Vocal Ensemble, and a regular guest singer with the Brisbane Chorale and The Australian Voices. He was a Lay Clerk in the St John’s Cathedral Choir for ten years, and has performed with all of Brisbane’s major choirs. David has also been a guest singer with the Adelaide Chamber Singers, the cathedral choirs of St Paul’s, Melbourne, and St Peter’s, Adelaide, and the London Symphony Chorus.