David Yardley

DAVID YARDLEY (b. 1978) – Medieval and Fantasy Music For Our Times

Immersed in Medieval and Renaissance music since his teenage years, David Yardley is a countertenor, medieval harpist and composer. Singing since the age of 8 and composing since the age of 12, music has been a life-long passion.

His critically-acclaimed compositions have been called “transcendent medieval-inspired music for modern times” that “transport our ears back to the medieval world.”

The latest albums of his compositions, The Lost Codex of Avalon (Volumes I + II), are a unique collaboration between David and some of Australia’s finest professional musicians, also featuring New York-based medieval ensemble Concordian Dawn and renowned medieval organist, Cristina Alís Raurich. As well as medieval texts set to his new music, the albums feature contemporary poetry with medieval/fantasy ideas at their core. This includes award-winning poetry of Anne Casey. David’s debut album, New Carols and Songs for Chaucer’s Pilgrims, featured his settings of surviving medieval secular and sacred texts.

His works are regularly performed and broadcast in the US, the UK and Australia.

As a performer, reviewers have said, “What a voice! With equal measures of highly trained technicality combined with a sense of innocence, his is a vocal sound world that truly transports the listener to another realm”. He has been a soloist in Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center, with New York-based group, Talisman Medieval and with the UN Chamber Music Society. He has appeared as a featured performer at the Medieval Music in the Dales Festival, Bolton Castle, UK. He has also performed with outstanding ensembles across the world, including the choirs of St Thomas, Fifth Avenue, New York; the Church of the Transfiguration, New York; Southwark Cathedral, London; Jesus College, Cambridge; St James’ Church, King Street, Sydney; The Sydney Chamber Choir; The Renaissance Players, Sydney.

David studied at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sydney, and his voice teachers have included Jacqui Horner-Kwiatek (Anonymous 4), and Patrick Craig (The Tallis Scholars, St Paul’s Cathedral Choir, London).

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