Described as 'a musician for all seasons' (RTÉ), David Gerrard performs on the harpsichord, clavichord, fortepiano and organ. In demand as a continuo player, David has performed at home and abroad with both modern and period instrument groups including Dunedin Consort, The English Concert, English Touring Opera, Hebrides Ensemble, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Irish Chamber Orchestra, La Nuova Musica, London Mozart Players, The Mozartists, Opera Settecento, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and The Sixteen. A skilled choir trainer and conductor, he has held appointments as Organ Scholar at Canterbury Cathedral and Magdalen College, Oxford, and as Assistant Organist at Paisley Abbey. David graduated with double first-class honours in Music from the University of Oxford, followed by a performance master's degree working with the University of Edinburgh’s instrument collections at St Cecilia’s Hall. When not playing them, David builds and restores early keyboard instruments. His PhD (Edinburgh, 2024, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council) combined the maker and performer’s perspectives, culminating in the hypothetical reconstruction of a mid-seventeenth-century North German harpsichord.
