David Ogden (conductor)

David Ogden, (born 1966 in Tring in Hertfordshire) is a conductor and composer, directing choirs, choral and church music workshops, courses and festivals in the UK and abroad.

Career

David Ogden is a freelance conductor and composer. Between 1991 and 2002, David Ogden was Director of Music at Clifton Cathedral, Bristol, and from 1995 to 2001 he was Regional Director of the Royal School of Church Music for the South West and Midlands.

He conducts Exultate Singers, City of Bristol Choir, the Millennium Youth Choir and is the Head of the Bristol Choral Centre. He is Director of Music at Westbury-on-Trym parish church in Bristol, with Assistant Organist Richard Johnson, and Organ Scholar Owain Park. He is Director of White Light Publishing. He is also a Special Advisor for the Royal School of Church Music, and an Associate Lecturer in Music and Liturgy at Wesley College, an affiliated college of the University of Bristol.

For over 20 years he has worked with numerous professional and amateur groups of all shapes and sizes in many fields of music making, including concerts, musical theatre and opera, community projects, primary and secondary level educational workshops, from small children’s groups to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. In the UK, he works extensively with the Royal School of Church Music, and with the BBC, conducting choirs on BBC Radios 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and the World Service, and working as conductor, arranger and music adviser on BBC TV’s Songs of Praise, including a live television broadcast co-ordinating simultaneous performances in Ghana and the UK in 2001.

He has conducted choirs in the UK, the Philippines, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Finland, Italy, Germany, France, Thailand, Belgium, the Netherlands and also the Gambia.

As a busy composer, David writes music for churches and schools. Many of his pieces have been performed on radio and television, including his best known pieces: Song of Ruth, White Light Eucharist and the anthem, Christ has no body now but yours.

In April 2008 David's piece Love's redeeming work is done was sung by a 250-strong choir in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI as part of a Papal Mass during the Pope's visit to the USA. The Mass was celebrated by the Pope in the Washington Nationals Baseball Stadium with a congregation of 40,000 people in attendance.

David Ogden's music is published by White Light Publishing and RSCM Music Direct.

In 2010 he gave an after dinner speech at the Bristol and District Organists' Association annual dinner. www.bdoa.org.uk

Awards

In 2006 he was appointed Associate of the Royal School of Church Music for his services to church music.

Recordings

David's music has been recorded by many choirs, including Exultate Singers and the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir.

External links

• David Ogden's Website
• Exultate Singers, founded in 2002 by David Ogden
• City of Bristol Choir, which appointed David Ogden in 2001 as its Conductor and Musical Director
• White Light Publishing, one of David Ogden's publishers
• Exultate Singers CDs including David Ogden's pieces Song of Ruth (A Time For Singing, 2008) and Christ has no body now but yours (Visions of Peace, 2005)
• RSCM Millennium Youth Choir CD including David Ogden's Christ has no body now but yours (Out of the Stillness, 2007)
• Westbury-on-Trym Parish Church Organ Appeal where a sum of £100,000 is in the process of being raised to help restore the magnificent Willis Organ to its former glory. Details on concerts and ways you can help are on the link.

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