David Orr

David read Music at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. After his Master’s degree, he taught for some years in independent schools before being appointed Director of Music at St George’s Anglican Cathedral in Cape Town, with responsibility for the cathedral’s overall programme of both liturgical and secular music. He returned to independent education in April 2013 and is now Head of Music and Head of Culture at Epworth School in Pietermaritzburg. His compositions are mainly choral, many of them written for specific occasions or for the particular choirs he has worked with.