{"id":87,"date":"2021-03-03T18:35:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T18:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/?page_id=87"},"modified":"2024-11-05T19:11:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T19:11:36","slug":"conductor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/?page_id=87","title":{"rendered":"Conductor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Widor.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Holroyd has been conductor of the Choral Society since May 1991 &#8211; and doesn&#8217;t quite know where 30 years have gone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dh.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dh.jpg 600w, https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/dh-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>at the console of Chester Cathedral<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>David <\/strong>has been Conductor of the Choral Society since 1991.&nbsp; Until summer 2019 he was Director of Music at Merchant Taylors\u2019 School in Crosby. He studied organ and choir-training at the Royal Northern College of Music with Ronald Frost, Gillian Weir and John Bertalot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David\u2019s musical career began at the age of 7 as a choirboy at St Hilary\u2019s Church Wallasey, where in due course he became Organist and Choirmaster.&nbsp; He spent a time as Assistant Organist at Chester Cathedral before moving to Merchant Taylors\u2019 School.&nbsp; As well as being our Conductor for 30+ years, he also conducts Birkenhead Choral Society, and Amadeus: the Chamber Choir, and still plays the organ at St Peter&#8217;s Church, Formby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Howells-Magnificat.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Holroyd has been conductor of the Choral Society since May 1991 &#8211; and doesn&#8217;t quite know where 30 years have gone! David has been Conductor of the Choral Society since 1991.&nbsp; Until summer 2019 he was Director of Music&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-87","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/87\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}