David Stevens currently on the staff of Newcastle Cathedral has been appointed choirmaster at St Anne’s Cathedral.
David Stevens is Director of the Girls’ Choir and Sub–Organist at Newcastle Cathedral, and Director of Campus Music at Northumbria University. He also teaches Choral
Conducting to organ scholars at Oxford University.
He is a prize–winning graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, from where he obtained an MA in Choral Conducting, with distinction, in 2009. Prior to that, David read Music and was Organ Scholar at Oriel College, Oxford. He has conducted the BBC Singers, the choir of the London Oratory, the Royal Academy of Music Chamber Choir, the choir of New College, Oxford, and the Arcadian Singers of Oxford University.
David spent a year as Organ Scholar and acting Sub–Organist of Guildford Cathedral, where he played the organ for services and assisted with the training and conducting of the cathedral choirs.
David currently studies with Dame Gillian Weir.
The post will carry the title ‘Master of the Choristers’ and is a newly shaped role that will involve the formation of both a boys’ choir and a girls’ choir for the Cathedral.