The Coventry Philharmonic Choir is delighted to welcome David Wynne as its new Musical Director from January 2020.
David has enjoyed a hugely varied career as a freelance musician. As a conductor David, is Music Director of Birmingham Festival Choral Society, a role he has held for just over four years. He is also Musical Director of the Warwick and Kenilworth Choral Society having taken over this role in December 2019 after six incredibly successful years as Music Director of Ryton Chorale (Worksop).
David holds a masters’ degree in Vocal and Operatic performance from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, having studied singing with Henry Herford as well as receiving a scholarship to study choral conducting with Paul Spicer. He is a busy freelance baritone soloist, up until recently, a lay clerk at St. Chad’s Cathedral Birmingham, and has performed several times as a musician of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
David is very involved as a visiting lecturer at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Junior Department. He teaches singing, conducting as well musicianship and is Choral Director of the Senior Chorus and the Vocal Ensemble.
David has worked with some of the country’s leading music education organisations, including: Opera North, Welsh National Opera, the Armonico Consort and Leicester and Leeds Cathedral’s education departments. With his wife, Alexandra, they co run (and co-founded) the St. Chad’s Cathedral Junior Choir and the extensive Choral Outreach Programme which sees them teaching choral singing to approx. 400 children a week across Birmingham.
Our accompanist and Assistant Musical Director is Antoine Mitchell. Antoine studied at Trinity College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music where he won the RAM Club Prize and the Ernest Read Conducting Prize. He then studied in Italy at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena with Franco Ferrara where he was awarded Diploma di Merito. There he also studied with Carlo Maria Giulini and Paul Badura Skoda.