DAVID CAMERON, a Fellow of both the Royal Canadian College of Organists and of Trinity College, London, holds graduate degrees in musical History and Literature (M.Mus.), and an interdisciplinary doctorate bridging the four streams of performance and performance practice, composition, and historical research. He was Director of Music at Chalmers United Church from 1966 until his retirement in June 2010. He continues as adjunct instructor of organ at Queen's School of Music. Well known as a teacher, a recitalist, a scholar, and an author of music theory textbooks, he has taught several dozen organists, many of whom work in churches and universities across Canada. He was the fiftieth national President of the RCCO from 2006 to 2008. He now chairs the College's Examinations Committee.

In his forty-four years at Chalmers he directed a semi-professional choir in live-to-air broadcasts each Sunday, and in regular performances of oratorios with orchestra. The Chalmers Good Friday concert series has become a tradition over about 100 years and Melos has been a part of it since 1985. In 1984, he founded Melos as a chamber choir of sixteen singers, and presided over its expansion into the Melos Choral Ensemble, an auditioned choir of some twenty-five to thirty voices.

David Cameron has directed performances with orchestra of many of the best-known and best-loved choral works, some of them multiple times. He has directed three Brahms Requiems, two Mozart Requiems, one Fauré Requiem, two St. Matthew Passions, one St. John Passion, two performances of Elijah, several of the B Minor Mass, and more than forty performances of Messiah, as well as many premières of new works.

He is active as a composer and editor of anthems, liturgical music and secular songs, with music published by RCCO Publications, by Harrock Hall, and through the open-access Choral Public Domain Library. He has also written songs and chamber music, and five harmony and counterpoint textbooks.

A more detailed biography may be found here.