Conductors he has appeared with include Hugo Rignold, Maurice Handford, Piero Gamba and Christian Badea.

[11][12] David had recently collaborated with the Royal Ballet choreographer Vanessa Fenton on two smaller works mounted in Cambridge in 2009.

[19] In June 2012 his setting of Rupert Brooke's 'The Old Vicarage, Grantchester' for baritone chorus and orchestra, commissioned by Dame Mary Archer to mark the poem's centenary, was given its first performance at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, with the Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra, members of the choirs of Clare and Gonville and Caius College, and Nicholas Mogg as baritone soloist.

The latter was premiered in Cambridge in December 2015, directed by Dionysios Kyropoulos,[22] and conducted by Dominic Peckham[23] with James Schouten in the title role.

[24][25] David teaches piano performing to undergraduates at Cambridge University, and is a supervisor for Tripos Composition students.

[27] A setting of Stephen Spender's poem The Truly Great was composed for Anglia Ruskin University's 25th Anniversary Songbook in 2017.

The latter work was recorded by The Royal Scottish National Orchestral in October 2019, in collaboration with The Deep Carbon Observatory in Washington DC.