James Davy grew up in Suffolk and Nottinghamshire before studying at Durham University. A creative and inspiriting musician with a wide range of interests and experience, his career includes posts at Winchester College, at Portsmouth, Durham, St Albans, and Blackburn Cathedrals, and eleven years as Organist and Master of the Choristers at Chelmsford Cathedral. Since beginning a freelance career based in Suffolk, James has become School Organist at the Royal Hospital School, Holbrook where he also teaches the organ, accompanist and piano and organ teacher at Woodbridge School, and Associate Conductor of Trianon Music Group while remaining music director of the Chelmsford Singers; James has recently also become Organist and Assistant Director of Music at Ipswich Minster. He is a published composer, with recent projects including vocal and choral commissions and incidental music for a production of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia.
Unfamiliar with the concept of spare time, outside of his musical life James is a keen equestrian, volunteering and enjoying the discipline of eventing with his Irish Sport Horse, Max, and is a volunteer with the East Anglian Sailing Trust.
