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Recitalist - DAVID OSSELTON |
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His first organist and choirmaster's appointment was at St. George's city centre and university church in Leeds. Whilst studying for his BSc and PhD at the University of London he was organist and choirmaster at Hammersmith Parish Church (currently the London home of Carlo Curley) and later at Hounslow Parish Church. In 1974 he moved to Kingsclere where he was organist and choirmaster before becoming Director of Music at St. Nicolas, Newbury in 1990. Whilst at St. Nicolas' David was also chairman of the Newbury and District Organists' Association. Owing to increasing pressures of his work as a Forensic Toxicologist, David left St. Nicolas at the end of 1998. With a little more time on his hands, he decided it was time to try to shed some bad playing habits that had built up over the years and began lessons with Stephen Farr at Winchester Catherdral. Following the appointment of David Reynolds to the organist's position at St. Nicolas in 1998, David Osselton took over David Reynolds' vacated organ seats at Woolton Hill, West Woodhay and Hampstead Marshall. 13 June 1999 |
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DAVID
OSSELTON was educated in Leeds where he also first began to play the
organ. Torn between music and science he took "A"-levels
in both sciences and music. Having been offered places to study
music and also science at university he eventually decided to follow
a career in science and keep music as a hobby.