David combines a freelance conducting and organist career with the post of Director of the Girls' Choir and Sub-Organist at Newcastle Cathedral.

David read Music and was Organ Scholar at Oriel College Oxford before studying for an MA in Choral Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music, from where he graduated, with distinction, in 2009. He has conducted the BBC Singers, the choir of the London Oratory, the Royal Academy of Music Chamber Choir, the choir of New College, Oxford, and the Arcadian Singers of Oxford University.

Before moving to London, David spent a year as Organ Scholar and acting Sub-Organist of Guildford Cathedral, where he played the organ for services and assisted with the training and conducting of the cathedral choirs.

David holds the Associate Diploma of the Royal College of Organists, and has given recitals in Bristol, Lichfield, Truro, Bradford and Southwark cathedrals, York Minster, and Hull City Hall.