• M.Mus. (Potsdam) F.T.C.L., F.R.C.C.O. (Chm.)
• D. Mus. (American Conservatory)

Adjunct Lecturer in Organ (Keyboard)

Email: cdc@queensu.ca

David Cameron was born and educated in Toronto, where his teachers included Catherine Palmer, Douglas Bodle, Paul Murray and the late Eric Rollinson. Later graduate study in Potsdam, N.Y., and St. Louis concentrated upon applied musicology and composition. In 1966 he moved to Kingston, Ontario, to become Director of Music at Chalmers United Church, a position he still holds. 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 Music Director of the concert choir Melos, David Cameron's concert credits include thirty-six Messiahs, a staged version of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, most of the standard settings of the Requiem, both Bach Passions and the Mass in b minor, Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, and a long list of smaller works. Recent programmes have included the Duruflé Requiem, Bach's Ascension Oratorio, Mozart's Great Mass in c minor, K. 427, and staged versions of Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors. In the 2008-09 season he will direct a concert celebrating the anniversary of the poet Milton, with new settings of his poems, and his thirty-seventh "Messiah" in observance of the 250th anniversary of Handel's death.

At Chalmers Church he directs a semi-professional choir, which broadcasts live every Sunday, performing repertoire largely from the English cathedral tradition, but with substantial representation of music by Canadians and other living composers.

Dr. Cameron is an active composer and the author of basic harmony and counterpoint textbooks. A Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, and a long-time member of its national Board of Directors and Council, David Cameron served as the College's fiftieth President in 2006-08. He is now Past President and Chair of the National Examination Committee.