Trained in management, and as a conductor, and with a doctorate in musicology, David moved from his native England to northern Sweden in 1980; his working themes are showing teachers how they can produce magic, empowering the learner by addressing the whole person: and these have taken him from Nizhny to Seattle, from Luleå to Buenos Aires.

David has worked regularly in Estonia. His first visit was in Soviet times, as a representative of the international Society for Effective Affective Learning, SEAL, showing how the effects of music can so greatly enhance language teaching. Then he met Viljandi Linnakapell on a concert tour in Sweden, when they attended a summer course at which he was teaching; an invitation to visit Viljandi fitted in perfectly with the return journey by train after a seminar tour based on the Kitaigorodskaya Institute at Moscow university.

Work in Tartu began in the unpretentious setting of the tiny Catholic parish room. Later, thanks to the vision of Raho Langsepp, docent Aasa Must, and rector Peter Tulviste, David was visiting professor at Tartu University's Arts Centre and Arts Department during much of the 1990:s. Students who attended the various activities of Camerata Tartuensis were able to discover ways of achieving what they had previously thought was impossible, whether it was singing in harmony with others, learning a language, performing on stage or simply controlling nerves ...

These days he is happy to stay mostly at home in the forest but in touch world-wide via the internet, integrating text, music, pictures, animation and film to produce empowering pedagogical materials in his home-studio based on Macintosh computers, and is grateful to have the help of the Estonian Educational and Research Network in making his work generally available.