David Owen Norris

David Owen Norris, FSA (born 1953) is a British pianist, composer, academic, and broadcaster.

Norris was born in 1953 in Long Buckby in Northamptonshire, England, later attending Daventry Grammar School.

[3] After leaving Oxford, he studied composition and worked at the Royal Opera House as a repetiteur.

As a pianist, he has accompanied soloists such as Dame Janet Baker, Larry Adler and John Tomlinson, and his solo career has included appearances at the Proms and performances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Sober Flirter and The Jolly Roger, have been performed on BBC Radio and around the UK and Europe, as have several pastiches of Mozart.