David Leigh is the Organist and Assistant Master of Music at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. He pursues a busy career as a conductor and keyboard player, working frequently with the NSO, RTECO, Ulster Orchestra and Chamber Choir Ireland. He is Musical Director of the University of Dublin Choral Society and of chamber choir The Gaudete Singers.
David held organ scholarships at the cathedrals of Blackburn and Lichfield, and then at St Peter’s College, Oxford during which time he read for a music degree and was also Assisting Organist at Magdalen College. He also studied the organ with David Sanger and with Nicolas Kynaston during this time. At the age of nineteen he won several playing prizes in the Royal College of Organists’ examination for Fellowship.
Programme of Music:
Prelude, Trio and Fugue in B-flat BWV 545b
by J S Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata No 1
by Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963)
Esquisse No3
by Marcel Dupré (1886 - 1971)
Toccata for Organ Op12
by Fernando Germani (1906 - 1998)