David Ogden, Music Director of City of Bristol Choir
David Ogden 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 City of Bristol Choir, he conducts the accomplished Bristol-based chamber choir Exultate Singers, 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, 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 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.