Bridgewater Sinfonia, Berkhamsted

Bridgewater Sinfonia, Berkhamsted

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Adrian Davis hails from Wiltshire, and most of his life has been involved in music education, first as the Director of Music in a Grammar School and Parish Church in Torquay in Devon and later, for twenty-four years, at Berkhamsted School where he established a strong musical tradition in both choir and orchestra. Many of his students from the School have gone on to successful professional careers in music, and have returned to Berkhamsted to work with the man who inspired them. Since 1997 he has been Director of Music at St.Peter’s Church, Berkhamsted, where the church choir is now one of the very few choirs outside the major cathedrals to regularly sing a full Choral Evensong.

Adrian was awarded a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music, where he studied composition with Edmund Rubbra and the organ with Nicholas Danby and Harold Dexter. During this period he deputised at Southwark Cathedral on many occasions and won the August Manns Prize for organ.

Since 1976 Adrian has been an Examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, for whom he has travelled worldwide. In 1987 he was elected to a Fellowship at Keble College, Oxford to engage in study of 18th century vocal practices. He continues to compose music for various occasions, including a piece for St. Peter’s Choir to sing during the Queen’s visit to the church in 2016. He also composed a work in commemoration of those who died in the terrorist outrage in Nice, which was very well received by audiences in the South of France (including the cathedrals of Agde and Maguelone) during last summer’s concert tour by the CCC. He regularly performs with the chamber group Serenata both in and outside the UK demonstrating his considerable keyboard skills which are occasionally overlooked as a result of his conducting.

 

 

Our next concert:

8 March 2025

Elgar Cello Concerto

Venue:

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