DAVID PATRICK

 Organist, Harpsichordist, Conductor

    DAVID PATRICK was a pupil of and Assistant to Dr Harold Darke at St. Michael's. Cornhill. London from 1959 to 1966 during which time he gave many recitals and was awarded a Fellowship of Trinity College. London. Since then he has firmly established himself as an organist, accompanist (organ, harpsichord and piano). and conductor in both the United Kingdom and abroad. He has performed on many occasions in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, France, Holland,  Luxembourg., Austria,  Italy  and  Switzerland  (including the International Festivals at Lahti and Sorø). His performances in the United Kingdom have included those at London's major Concert Halls, many Cathedrals and Leeds Town Hall. He has also broadcast and appeared on television and has made records of organ music on important Swedish organs for the Swedish Company, Opus 3. In the United Kingdom he has recorded for the Priory label.    Recent concert tours have been to Italy, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands.  

 He is an examiner and moderator for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.  

      In recent years major music publishers have issued many of his editions and arrangements of piano and organ music, Christmas carols and sacred choral music (including the 5 Volume Series "Harmonia Sacra" commissioned by Kevin Mayhew Ltd.), song collections and recorder pieces.

     David Patrick has become known as a successful choral conductor having conducted small and massed choirs in many places including the Royal Albert Hall in London. In 1973 he conducted the world premiere of John Joubert's opera "The Prisoner" and has directed Courses and Summer Schools for church musicians in England, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. 

     He is in constant demand as an adjudicator, having judged at numerous Festival Competitions throughout the United Kingdom, and in Hong Kong (1986 and 1999).