David Adkins

David Adkins was born in Birmingham in 1958 and educated at The Judd School. In 1976, he won a Sir William Paddy Organ Scholarship to St. John’s College, Oxford, where he obtained an Honours Degree in Music. His organ teachers included Dr. A.W. Bunney, Ian Curror and Nicholas Danby. His career since University has combined teaching and composing with playing the organ in a number of Central London churches. In 1996, he obtained an M.Mus degree in Composition from Goldsmiths’ College, University of London. He has given recitals in France, Germany, the United States and the UK and has played and sound engineered on several CD recordings. He was for eight years Honorary Director of Music to the Society of Our Lady of Pew in Westminster Abbey. In 2003, he trained a section of the Southend Boys’ Choir for a British Youth Opera production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Since April, he has been Organist and Director of Music at St. Saviour’s, Raynes Park. His compositions include Changes, which was commissioned and recorded by the percussion section of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and Steel, a quintet for the ensemble Double Image. His organ compositions All Saints’ Day Music, Fanfare and Something for Sunday are all published by Fagus Music.

All Saints' Day Music (2004) and For Saint Paul (from Book of Apostles) (2006) were performed during the 2007 AFNOM festival in London.

Contact information

David Adkins
23 Ronald Hill Grove
Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
SS9 2JB
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1702 716 928

Email: david@adkinsd.freeserve.co.uk