2004 Conference Presenter

David Childs
Middle School Choir Conductor

David Childs, Middle School Choir Conductor

David Childs, Director, Vanderbilt Symphonic Choir, Blair Chamber Choir, and Musical Director for the Blair Lyric Theatre.

Assistant Professor of Choral Studies.
B.M. (Canterbury, New Zealand); M.M. (Florida State); D.M.A. (Louisiana State University); Dip. Tchg. (Christchurch, New Zealand); LTCL (piano)

Student of Kenneth Fulton, Michael Butterman, Andr� Thomas, Rodney Eichenberger, Phillip Spurgeon, David Smyth, and Robert Peck. He is music director for the Vanderbilt Opera Theater program, having recently conducted performances of Mozart�s The Magic Flute, Puccini�s Gianni Schicchi, and Gilbert and Sullivan�s The Pirates of Penzance. He has some twenty compositions with Santa Barbara, Alliance Music, and Colla Voce, several of which frequently appear in All-State festivals and at national and regional ACDA conventions. In July of 2002 Childs worked under Helmuth Rilling at the Oregon Bach Music Festival, one of 12 participants chosen to attend his master class. Dr. Childs has served as clinician and adjudicator in the United States on numerous occasions, working at the grade school, college, and community levels, most recently serving as honor choir conductor in Tennessee, Virginia, and Louisiana. Future All-State Choir engagements include Oregon and Tennessee (2004). Childs was also recently invited to appear on the Mid-America Productions concert series, and will conduct Haydn�s Paukenmesse in Carnegie Hall in 2005. Childs has been a member of the Blair School faculty since 2000.