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David Ogden
David Ogden (b.1966) is a professional conductor
and composer based in Bristol. He conducts the vocal ensemble Celestia, Exultate Singers, City of Bristol Choir, workplace choirs at Airbus, Arval and Bristol Beacon, and in his post of Head of the Bristol Choral Centre, he organises and directs the 140 strong Bristol Youth Choirs in association with Bristol Music Trust.
He is Director of Music at Holy Trinity Church, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol where he trains and directs three choirs of young people and adults as part of the church’s active music programme.
David has held posts as Director of Music at Clifton Cathedral and Clifton Diocese, Regional Director of the South West and Midlands of the Royal School of Church Music and conductor of the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir. He has conducted choirs on BBC Radios 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and the World Service, and worked as conductor, arranger and music adviser for over 20 years on BBC TV’s Songs of Praise. He was Religious Music Adviser for the BBC’s hit series Call The Midwife, and worked with the Royal Mail Choir in the BBC Two series The Choir: Sing While You Work.
His compositions are published by the RSCM and White Light Publishing, and are performed in schools and churches worldwide. His music and arrangements are broadcast frequently on BBC radio and television. In Bristol, he has written songs and directed choirs for the opening of Cabot Circus, the MShed Museum, BBC Food & Farming Awards and the NHS In Memoriam project.
In April 2008 one of his anthems was performed by a 250-strong choir in
the presence of Pope Benedict XVI as part of a Papal Mass in Washington Nationals Baseball Stadium in Washington DC with a congregation of 40,000 people in attendance.
In 2015 David was made a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music in recognition of his services over many years to church music and the RSCM both in this country and internationally.