David Burchell is Dunedin City Organist, Organist and Choir Director of St Joseph’s Cathedral, and Senior Organist and Parish Choirmaster at All Saints’ Church, Dunedin. He is also organ tutor and graduation organist at the Department of Music, University of Otago. Away from the organ, he is Musical Director of City Choir Dunedin, and Musical Director of ‘The Little Box of Operas’, a company specialising in chamber opera.

He studied at Oxford University and was Organ Scholar and later Assistant Organist at New College, working for six years with the renowned chapel choir. This included a term in charge of the choir, television and radio broadcasts, and participation in the recording of many CDs as organ accompanist and soloist. He has also worked as a university lecturer and was director of the Newcastle University Orchestra. For eleven years he was Organist and Choir Director at Paul’s Cathedral, Dunedin, and since moving to Dunedin in 1999 he has made a considerable impression on the city’s musical life, as a choir trainer, organist, piano accompanist and also as an orchestral conductor with the Dunedin Youth Orchestra, Southern Sinfonia (now Dunedin Symphony Orchestra) and St Kilda Brass.

David has appeared as organ soloist with the Southern Sinfonia in Poulenc’s Organ Concerto, Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony, and in the première of Anthony Ritchie’s Organ Overture. He has also appeared with the Southern Sinfonia, directing from the harpsichord, in Bach’s fifth Brandenburg Concerto and as harpsichordist in C.P.E. Bach’s Concerto for Harpsichord and Fortepiano.