Guest Conductors
David Victor-Smith
Guest Conductor
A prize-winner at the Royal College of Music, London, David studied organ playing and conducting. He then entered the teaching profession and enjoyed a career of some thirty years teaching in all sectors of State Education from Primary to Sixth Form. Concurrently with academic teaching, however, his commitment to and love of choral music brought his school choirs, parish church choirs, and community groups to national acclaim. Together with his wife, Gillian, he founded Farnham Youth Choir in 1984.
Now, David works as a freelance musician, leading workshops, adjudicating at national and international competitions, and lecturing on choral singing. He has worked closely with leading composers such as John Rutter, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Jonathan Dove to premier their works for children's voices, and, with Farnham Youth Choir, has made six recordings to date.
He is an active member of the Association of British Choral Directors, a regular guest conductor at the National Youth Choirs' Boys' Choir courses across the country, and was invited in January 2007 to Brisbane, as international guest conductor to Gondwana Voices, Australia's national Children's Choir.
