He is currently in Australia where he graduated eight years ago.

His travel down-under includes catching up with family and friends as well performances in Adelaide, Melbourne and Canberra.

David was invited back to Australia by the University of South Australia and the Accompanist's Guild of South Australia to be part of the Festival of Accompanists and Conference of Accompanists and Associate Artistes.

David's professional life is certainly busy with his diary filling up months in advance. Highlights over the summer include his own recital series at the Arts Club in Mayfair, London, commencing in June which will be launched with one of the opera world's most beautiful voices, Deborah Norman, again well known to Sheffield audiences and following his term at Yewlands, he will act as répétiteur to British Youth Opera on both of their production of La Rondine (Puccini) and the London debut performance of Jonathan Dove's opera Flight.

He still continues to be an active part of the Lost Chord Scheme in South Yorkshire where he will perform to sufferers of dementia and Alzheimer's in the South Yorkshire area.

In December David raised £500 for this worthy cause by forming a chamber choir for a concert. The choir have continued to perform together – called The Brincliffe Consort and will appear with David and Sheffield Cathedral's master of the Music, Neil Taylor, in this year's Buxton Fringe Festival on the 27th July at 4pm St. John's Church, Buxton.

Tickets are £8/£5 and available through the Buxton Opera House Box Office 0845 127 219.

The concert titled As Torrents In Summer will feature some of the best music written for choirs including I was Glad & Blest Pair of Sirens (Parry) The Long Day Closes (Sullivan), Nimrod from the Enigma Variations (Elgar arr. for choir) and The Blue Bird (Stanford).

It will last just over an hour and is the perfect music for a summers' evening in Buxton and in the perfect acoustics of St. John's Church.