Essex-born, David was an Academic Foundation Scholar of Brentwood School, then awarded an Organ Scholarship to Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he graduated after three years with an MA and a Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists. He spent the following year gaining his teaching qualification at London University. A teaching post back at Brentwood School followed, and in 1987 he became Director of Music. He is now celebrating his twentieth year in the post with a Department of four full-time staff and twenty peripatetic music specialists, and the largest A-Level Music sets in the country.

Outside of Brentwood School’s walls, he may be found in the recording studio, often in Europe, where he conducts film scores – with the City of Prague Philharmonic (two projects for ITV, “The King’s Beard” and “Eddy and the Bear”) and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (“The Wyvern Mystery” for BBC1). His most recent projects have been conducting the film of the BBC’s popular series “The Story of Tracy Beaker”, transmitted in February 2004, and in 2005 supervising the music for the BBC’s “Most Mysterious Murders” series. David’s original scores and arrangements have been recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra, the Central Band of the RAF and the King’s Singers, amongst many others.

He is perhaps most proud that he is the musical voice of the villainous penguin in the Oscar-winning Wallace & Gromit “The Wrong Trousers”. David is the composer of two operas and three musicals, one of which – “Ain’t Life Good!” – written originally for Harrow School, was awarded the Barclays “Best New Musical” Prize after a South Bank performance in 1994. It was revived at Brentwood School in 2004. He is published worldwide by Samuel French Ltd.

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