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

Between 1991 and 2002, he 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, Royal Mail Choir and the Millennium Youth Choir. He is the Head of the Bristol Choral Centre and Director of Music at Westbury-on-Trym parish church in Bristol. 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 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 composer, he 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 his piece Love's redeeming work is done was sung by a 250-strong choir in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI and a congregation of 40,000 as part of a Papal Mass in the Washington Nationals Baseball Stadium.

Awards

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

Recordings and publications

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

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

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