David is a popular workshop leader with many of Britain's leading choral organisations such as the British Federation of Young Choirs and Association of
British Choral Directors, and in addition to the Lacock Summer School directs courses for The Voices Foundation and the Canford Summer School of Music. He was asked to become an adjudicator for the Sainsbury's Choir of the
Year Competition 2000.Recent performances have included the Young World Concerts, which involved one choir of over 8,500 voices. Current engagements include performances at Birmingham's Symphony Hall, further
concerts with the East of England Orchestra, a Millennium Concert with the Jersey Festival Choir and a recording with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
David Lawrence is one of Britain's most promising young
conductors. He studied choral conducting with Simon Halsey and orchestral conducting with Colin Metters and George Hurst at the Royal Academy of Music where he won all the major conducting prizes. David is most widely known as a
guest conductor of choirs and small opera companies. He is and Founder Director of Music at De Montfort University, Leicester and Choir Leader of the new City of Birmingham Young Voices.
David has maintained a
special interest in the work of twentieth century British composers. He was invited back to the Royal Academy of Music to conduct the premiere of Andrew Gant's opera The Basement Room, and with the British Chamber Choir made the
first commercial recording of the music of Christopher Brown.
David has toured widely within Europe, represented Britain at an International Festival of Music and Dance in Bangalore, India, and for three years
travelled to Colombia as a guest conductor. Other opera productions have included Le Nozze di Figaro with Martlet Opera and La Cenerentola for Heart of England Opera
.
