David Macfarlane

David Macfarlane is a Melbourne based musician whose interests and abilities cover a diverse spectrum of stylistic performance from liturgical chant through instrumental and vocal music of the renaissance to contemporary classical music. David is equally at home on organ and harpsichord as a soloist and accompanist as well as accompanying regularly... on piano and he is passionate about both performance and teaching on these instruments. See the bottom of this page for a fuller CV. He is active as a soloist, continuo player, conductor, accompanist and teacher. David is the organist at Newman College, the University of Melbourne, and is a staff member of both the University of Melbourne and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Below, I normally list a few of the concerts which I will be performing or involved in. 2019 ended on a very positive note with a delightfully enjoyable tour of New Zealand with the Choir of Newman College who presented A Baroque Christmas with local early music specialists. Since then, like all musicians, I have seen so many concerts that I was very much looking forward to cancelled as governments reacted to the current health situation. In January, I was engaged, at very late notice, to accompany the Melbourne University Choral Society (MUCS) on their tour of Europe through January, flying out just after the Scorned Women concert. Because of this, I was very disappointed to no longer be available to perform with Louisa Hunter-Bradley music by Frescobaldi for the Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Festival, but many thanks to Donald Nicholson for stepping in for me with very late notice. For the third time, I accompanied MUCS through European countries, providing them with access to venues that needed an organist with a European profile. During this time, we began to hear about a virus in China and, by the time I flew out of Munich, there were two confirmed cases in Munich. Little did I realise that those concerts and performances would be the last for a long time. So, the last time that ...Read More