David Gibson

David Gibson began his musical training as a chorister and Lay Clerk in Chichester Cathedral Choir. As Organ Scholar, he studied music at the Universities of London and Sussex. He has worked extensively as a pianist and organist but has been a freelance conductor for the past ten years, working with the Philharmonia, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, London Mozart Players and the New London Sinfonia, which he founded in 1987.

In 1991 he was appointed Assistant Director of Music and Chorus Master of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Since then he has worked for them as Guest Conductor, performing all the major G & S works together with Die Fledermaus and Orpheus in the Underworld throughout the UK, including a season as Musical Director in London's West End.

In addition to the Southampton Philharmonic Society he is also Musical Director of the Croydon Philharmonic Choir, Basingstoke Choral Society and the Occam Singers.

In 1994 he was appointed Musical Director of European Chamber Opera and took up a similar post with Opera Holland Park in 1996. He has also conducted extensively for Travelling Opera, perfoming in Singapore, Hong Kong. France. Italy, Barbados and the USA.

Recent engagements have included a series of concerts with the London Mozart Players including conducting the world premier of Michael Nyman's Suite Drowning by Numbers at Warwick Arts Centre.

Last year, he conducted the second performance of Dominic Muldowney's The Fall of Jerusalem to great acclaim, and has also worked with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The New Queen's Hall Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. David will take up a new position of Musical Director of the Surrey Festival Choir from 2002.