David Dunnett
David
Dunnett was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Clare College,
Cambridge where he assisted Tim Brown and studied the organ with John
Pryer, John Bishop and David Sanger.
He continued studying with David Sanger as a postgraduate at the Royal
Academy of Music and also spent a year as Organist of Marylebone Parish
Church. He worked in the United States as Director of Chapel Music and
Staff Accompanist at the College of Wooster, Ohio, before becoming Assistant
Director of Music at Uppingham School. He became Sub-Organist at Winchester
Cathedral in November 1991 and subsequently performed with Winchester
Cathedral Choir in concerts, broadcasts, recordings and tours to Brazil,
USA and Australia. He assisted David Hill with the Waynflete Singers,
taught at Southampton University and is a previous conductor of the
Southampton University Chamber Choir and Winchester Music Club.
He is a busy organ recitalist both here and abroad and also regularly
accompanies singers and instrumentalists on the organ, harpsichord and
piano. He features on numerous recordings as conductor, soloist and
accompanist and has given recitals in Europe, USA and Russia.
He became Organist and Master of the Music at Norwich Cathedral in January
1996, and in 2007 returned to the organ loft as Cathedral Organist, where he now works
alongside Master of Music Ashley Grote. He is the Choral
Conductor of the Norwich Philharmonic Society, a previous part time
lecturer at the UEA and a busy examiner.