Director of Music

David Cameron M.Mus., FTCL, FRCCO (Chm.)

DAVID CAMERON has been Director of Music at Chalmers United Church since August, 1966. A native of Toronto, he was educated there and in graduate schools in Potsdam, NY and St. Louis, MO. He has taught organ and other subjects for Queen’s School of Music since the inception of the B.Mus. program at the university, as well as private students in organ and theory from centres in eastern Ontario; his former pupils hold church positions and academic posts across the country. Until 2004 he was also resident musician at Queen’s Theological College. David Cameron is also Music Director of the concert choir Melos; for more information and an outline of the choir’s repertoire, visit www.Melos.ca.

A Fellow both of Trinity College of Music of London, and of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, and a long-time member of the RCCO’s national Board of Directors and Council, in 2006-2008 David Cameron is the College’s fiftieth President. He is shown in August 2006 after his installation at a Convocation in Halifax, with Halifax harbour’s naval base in the background. For further information on the RCCO, Canada’s oldest society of professional musicians, visit http://www.rcco.ca/.

David Cameron’s compositions are regularly featured in Chalmers services, as well as being distributed more widely, and his books on theoretical subjects have been used by many students of harmony, counterpoint, and musical form. For a longer biography visit http://www.sarabandesite.com/.