Sir David Lumsden

Career: asst organist St John's Coll Cambridge 1951-53, organist and choirmaster St Mary's Nottingham 1954-56, rector chori Southwell Minster 1956-59, fell and organist New Coll Oxford 1959-76, princ Royal Scottish Acad of Music and Drama Glasgow 1976-82, Royal Acad of Music London 1982-93 (prof of harmony 1959-61); fndr and conductor Nottingham Bach Soc 1954-59, conductor Oxford Harmonic Soc 1961-63, conductor Oxford Sinfonia 1967-70, choragus Oxford Univ 1968-72, organist Sheldonian Theatre Oxford 1964-76; Hugh Porter lectr Union Theological Seminary NY 1967, visiting prof Yale Univ 1974-75; pres: Incorporated Assoc of Organists 1966-68, Incorporated Soc of Musicians 1984-85, Royal Coll of Organists 1986-88; chm Nat Youth Orchestra 1985-93; hon fell: Selwyn Coll Cambridge 1986, KCL 1990, New Coll Oxford 1996; Hon DLitt Univ of Reading 1991; Liveryman Worshipful Co of Musicians; Hon FRCO 1976, Hon RAM 1978, FRCM 1980, FRNCM 1981, FRSAMD 1982, Hon GSM 1984, FLCM 1985, FRSA 1985, FRSCM 1987, Hon FTCL 1988

Books and Publications: An Anthology of English Lute Music (1954), Thomas Robinson's Schoole of Musicke, 1603 (1971)