David Davies - Organ

David Davies is one of the most exciting concert organists of his generation, and is in demand as a versatile musician and educator. His abilities as a solo keyboard player, choir director, teacher, lecturer and orchestral conductor have taken his career all over the world, and his diverse experience of Western church music spans 25 years of liturgical experience. Most recently he held the Assistant Director of Music position at Exeter Cathedral in the UK. Mr Davies was educated at Eton College, at Magdalen College, Oxford (where he was organ scholar), and at the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University. 

He studied the organ with John Wellingham, Nicolas Kynaston, Professor Thomas Murray and Dr Martin Jean, and has received coaching by Marie-Claire Alain, Olivier Latry and Jacques von Oortmerssen. He has held church organist positions on both sides of the Atlantic. In the USA he served as Fellow in Church Music at Christ Church, New Haven, CT, and then as Assistant Organist at St Philip’s Cathedral, Atlanta, GA, during which time he was Artistic Director of Atlanta Schola Cantorum. Upon returning to the UK he was appointed Sub Organist and Director of the Girls’ Choir at Guildford Cathedral, a position he held for six years. During this time he was adjunct lecturer in music theory at the University of Surrey, and Director of the Surrey Festival Choir that was founded by Ralph Vaughan Williams during the Second World War. His ongoing connections with the USA have enabled him to perform concerts in California, Massachusetts, Washington DC, Florida, Alabama and New York. He is a commissioned composer both in this country and in the USA, where he studied with Ezra Laderman. Mr Davies has advised the liturgical commissions of both the Church of England and the Church in Wales. He lectures on the intersection of visual arts and theology, with a special interest in the place of Christian symbolism in an ever-increasingly secular society.

​More information about his work can be found at www.davidjuliandavies.com