David Barnard

Opera Répétiteur & Accompanist

About David

Originally from Australia, David studied at the Flinders Street School of Music (Adelaide) with Diana Harris. At the age of 18, he graduated with a Bachelor of Music (Performance) and an Advanced Diploma of Music (Accompanying). He was recognised nationally for his outstanding achievements during study and for being the youngest B.Mus graduate in Australia. He is now based in London, UK and a freelance accompanist & opera répétiteur.

As a répétiteur David has worked with, John Owen-Edwards (Gilbert & Sullivan Company), Fraser Goulding (The Opera School Wales, Swansea City Opera), Martin Merry (Opera Osuna, Seville), Stephen Barlow (State Opera of South Australia), Paul McCreesh (Music in the round, Sheffield), Kent Nagano (ABC Classics), Michael Lloyd (British Youth Opera), Peter Robinson (State Opera of South Australia, BYO & Raymond Gubbay Ltd – Albert Hall, English Touring Opera as MD for the education project, ICE (nominated for a Royal Philharmonic Society Award), The Minotaur Music Theatre Company as MD for the New English Version of The Barber of Seville and English National Opera (Baylis & Opera Works Programme).

His recital work includes Deborah Norman (soprano), Donald Maxwell (Baritone), Daniel Parkin (Flute), Sarah Fox (soprano), Roland Wood (Baritone), Sylvia O’Brien (soprano), Joshua Ellicot (tenor), & ‘The Sirens’, with performances in St John’s Smith Square (London), Chichester, Buxton & Wexford Festivals, National Concert Hall (Dublin), Oxford Lieder Festival, Florence (Italy), Seville (Spain) as well as accompanist to ‘Voiceworks’ (Adelaide) in Stuttgart, Wroclaw & Warsaw. David has recently returned from Australia where he gave broadcasts for ABC Classic FM and at the Festival & Conference of Accompanists.

David is a Britten-Pears young artist, a Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now artist and a member of the Lost Chord Project. He is also in demand to work with children of all ages and abilities across the UK giving concerts and workshops, as well as performing to sufferers of Dementia and Alzheimer’s.
His educational projects have been broadcast by BBC Radio Scotland and the ABC Classic FM in Australia.

Repertoire...

Song:
Songs and cycles by composers:
Strauss, Faure, Vaughan Williams, Head, Barber, Rodrigo, Coward, Novello, Debussy, Mozart, Wolf, Poulenc, Britten, Berlioz, Finzi, Dring, Gershwin, Obradors, Brahms, Schubert, Elgar, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Duparc, Griffes, Bridge, Henderson

Sonata/Duo
Clarinet, Flute, Viola, Oboe and Cello sonatas/duos:
Poulenc, Franck, Beethoven, Ravel,
Ann Boyd
Widor, Reinecke, Faure, Godard, Schumann

Various works for Trombone and Trumpet:
Haydn, Bozza, Hummel & Telemann

Chamber Music
Mozart G minor &
Eb Piano Quartets
Brahms Piano Quartet
in G minor
Brahms Liebesliederwalzer
Schumann Piano Quartet
Beethoven Piano Quartet Op. 16.
Mozart Quintet for Piano & Wind K452
Beethoven Quintet for Piano & Wind Op. 16

Scores Prepared as Répétiteur:

Mozart
Cosi fan tutte,
Le nozze di Figaro,
Don Giovanni,
The Magic Flute
Gounod
Roméo et Juliette
Handel
Tamerlano
Mascagni
Cavalleria Rusticana
Britten
Albert Herring
Dove
Flight
Puccini
La Bohème,
Tosca,
La Rondine,
Bizet
Carmen
Verdi
La Traviata
Dvořák
Rusalka
Donizetti
L'elisir d'amore,

Anna Bolena
Janáček
Jenůfa
Sullivan
Trial By Jury,
Princess Ida,
HMS Pinafore,
The Gondoliers, Ruddigore,
The Sorcerer,
The Yeoman of the Guard,
Patience,
The Mikado