Meet our Conductor

DavID Smith

David Smith is passionate about performing great masterpieces of the orchestral repertoire, and has a particular specialism in British orchestral music.
 
He is Music Director of Abbots Langley Orchestra and Conductor of Hemel Symphony Orchestra. For 14 years David was Music Director of South East London Orchestra which he founded in 2012.
 
David has worked with many orchestras in London and the south of England as a guest conductor, including Aylesbury Symphony Orchestra, London Repertoire Orchestra and Wycombe Sinfonia, and given performances in venues such as Smith Square Hall, Westminster Cathedral and the Chopin Academy in Warsaw.
 
He read Music and a Masters in Musicology at the University of Southampton, where his tutors included David Owen Norris and Michael Finnissy. He has studied conducting with Robin Browning and Denise Ham.
 
When not conducting, David is Director of Assessment Services at ABRSM (the UK’s largest music education body), a junior cricket coach and a lapsed trombonist!