David Hoyland

David Hoyland started playing the piano at the age of 8, later becoming interested in harpsichord and organ with Jane Clark and Richard Wilson. After school he went to the Royal College of Music and studied with Richard Latham (organ), Ruth Dyson (harpsichord), Michael Lankester (conducting), Herbert Howells (composition) and Nicholas MacGegan (early music). He continued his studies in harpsichord and composition and was later admitted into the Master Class of Ruggero Gerlin at the Academia Chigiana in Siena, Italy. In 1978 he received a French Government grant to study with Gerlin in Paris and studied there for the next 4 years. While he was there he took part in the conducting classes of the “Ecole Normale” and also built his own harpsichord with help from two Parisian harpsichord makers.

In London he is organist at the Church of St. Simon Stock in Putney and also for the Catholic Stage Guild. He has also directed the Sacred Music Drama Society and directed various works for choir and orchestra.

David has given numerous organ, harpsichord and chamber music recitals in Britain, France, Spain, Italy and Sweden. Caskabel has released a CD of works by the late Angel Barja and in which David Hoyland plays 3 of the 4 works featured.

As a composer, he has conducted his own works, notably in the Covent Garden Festival. He has just finished a Spanish one act opera “La muerte de Armonia”, with a libretto written for him by Antonio Colinas.