James Davey is one of the UK's most distinguished and respected young choral directors, in demand for his work as conductor, choral education practitioner, arranger and adjudicator.
Formerly the chief choral advisor for the BBC’s sheet music archives, James regularly conducts and prepares choirs for broadcasts on TV and Radio, and he is Director of ChoirFixer Limited, fixing professional ensembles for the entertainment and advertising industries.
James is Musical Director for Chantage (winners of the Malta International Choral Competition 2015 and the BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year Competition 2006), the Chandos Chamber Choir, Amici Cantate, Halstead Choral and 4Tunes, Channel 4 TV’s award-winning staff choir. He is also a conductor for Music In Offices, the Dart Festival Chorus, Cranleigh Choral Week and the Sherborne Summer School of Music.
He is also a conducting tutor for the Association of British Choral Directors (ABCD) and Association of Irish Choirs (AOIC) and is on the ABCD's Council of Practitioners, and is a co-founder of the London International Choral Conducting Competition.
Biography
James began his musical career as a chorister and brass player, gaining a place at the Birmingham Conservatoire to study trumpet and cornet, where, during his final year, he formed his first choir. This first experience of conducting, inspired by singing with the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and the critically acclaimed Laudibus (National Youth Chamber Choir), marked a significant turning point and James was allowed to adapt his BMus degree course to reflect this change in direction, even though no official courses in Choral Conducting were available from the Conservatoire at the time.
A graduate of the Birmingham Conservatoire and Roehampton University, where he gained his MA in Choral Education, James studied conducting with the Association of British Choral Directors (ABCD) and under many eminent choral figures, including; Mike Brewer, Peter Broadbent, Therees Hibbard, Paul Spicer, Ralph Allwood and Bob Chilcott.
James has also held posts as Choral Conductor for the Royal College of Music Junior Department and Junior Trinity College of Music, and has been a Guest Conductor for the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain and a for the Ingenium Academy.
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