David Leigh M.A., F.R.C.O. is the current Musical Director of the Ulysses Chamber Choir, Assistant Organist of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Director of the Cathedral Girls Choir and Senior Keyboards Tutor at NUI Maynooth. He combines these roles with a busy freelance career as organist, conductor and orchestral keyboards player.
A music graduate of Oxford University, he was organ scholar of St. Peter’s College and assisting organist of Magdalen College. Whilst organ scholar of Lichfield Catherdral aged nineteen, he became a fellow of the Royal College of Organists, winning the Turpin and Durrant prizes and held the Oxford University Betts Scholarship in 1995/1996.
Previous Musical Directors of the Ulysses Chamber Choir:
Thomas Kehoe, UCD graduate, appointed Musical Director of UCD Philharmonic Choir in 2008. M.D. of Ulysses Chamber Choir 2006-2008.
Gavin Maloney, graduate of RIAM and Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. Appointed Assistant Conductor of the RTE National Symphony Orchestra in 2004.
M.D. of Ulysses Chamber Choir 2002-2006.
David Brophy, Graduate of TCD and DIT, Dublin. Appointed Principal Conductor of RTE Concert Orchestra in 2007. M.D. of Ulysses Chamber Choir 1997-2002.
Fergus O’ Carroll, graduate of RIAM, Horn Player with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra and Music Publisher. M.D. of Ulysses Chamber Choir 1992-1997.
