Horsley Choral Society

Musical Director

David Wordsworth

David became conductor of HCS in January 2008.

He studied at Leeds University, The City University and The Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. Whilst still a student he worked with a great many choirs and opera companies as both accompanist and conductor and in 1995 was appointed Musical Director of the Addison Singers.  Since 2006 David has directed an over-subscribed course for aspiring conductors at The City Lit  and has recently conducted and adjudicated in the US, Hungary and Holland, making a highly acclaimed debut with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra in Manila in December 2007.  David regularly directs choral workshops and summer schools throughout the UK and during 2008/9 will conduct in the Baltic States, the USA and Canada. He will also conduct for a CD of music by John Gardner for Toccata Records.

For six years, David was Promotions Manager at Schott, Germany's leading music publisher and since 2003 has been a Senior Manager at Oxford University Press. He has lectured/chaired interviews on British music for a number of UK concert venues and the Kennedy and Lincoln Centers in the US and recently worked closely with the celebrated film-maker Tony Palmer on his critically admired film about the life of Vaughan Williams, 'O Thou Transcendent'.