David Force

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David Force read music at the University of Durham where he was organ scholar of the College of St Hild and St Bede (1985-1988) and of St Oswald’s church (1988-1989). He subsequently gained an MA with distinction in musicology and a PhD for his research into the use of the organ in seventeenth-century English consort music. He was organist at Sedbergh School (1989-1991) and Eastbourne College (1991-2015) where he also held the posts of Assistant Director of Music and Head of Academic Music. Until his recent retirement from teaching he was Director of Music at Saint Ronan’s School in Kent. David is an editor for publishers of musicological works in Belgium and Italy and currently has his book on performance practice in English seventeenth-century organ music in preparation for Cambridge University Press. He has written many articles for academic journals on early English keyboard repertoire and aspects of Jacobean and Stuart music. He also plays a variety of medieval and renaissance instruments with the ensemble Faronel and sings with the Mayfield Consort.