About

David Parker

David is our Assistand Musical Director and accompanist. He enjoyed an early musical career centred around singing.  His radio debut was as a boy treble singing Where ’er You Walk at the age of eleven on The Home Service, a month before it became Radio 4.  Later, while a counter- tenor choral scholar in Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford, he also sang in the pioneering early music group ‘The Tallis Scholars’.

As a conductor David has been a familiar sight on the local concert platform.  With the choir and orchestra of Franklin College in Grimsby, where he was Head of Music for most of his teaching career, he put on performances of most of the standard repertoire such as Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Monteverdi’s Vespers, Handel’s Israel in Egypt, Mozart’s Requiem, Haydn’s Creation and Bach’s St Matthew Passion, a work for which he has a particular affection, having now conducted it three times.

Since retiring from A Level teaching in the classroom, David has extended his role of pianist.  He is now pianist and deputy conductor for Grimsby Bach Choir, the Assistant Musical Director of Louth Choral Society and is much in demand as piano accompanist for degree and diploma level exams, giving recent recitals in Boston, Sheffield, Nottingham and Glasgow.  He studied piano locally with Shirley Kemp and in London with Max Pirani at the Royal Academy of Music and has worked as accompanist with artists such as Peter Pears, Thomas Hemsley, David Willcocks and Raphael Wallfisch.