Welcome to the website of David Byers, composer, musicologist, writer and broadcaster.
Biography includes additional pages on the New Belmont Consort, the BBC years and Ulster Orchestra years.
Compositions details music by David Byers, listed by category. Another page in this section includes many Programme Notes for those works.
Music features index links to the following:
- Orchestras in Northern Ireland
- Joan Trimble
- Edward Bunting
- 1813 Belfast Music Festival & Handel's Messiah
- Ulster Hall Organ & 1862 Belfast Musical Festival
- Joy Roger Hammerschlag - My Life of Music*
- Norman Hay
- Ina Boyle's String Quartet
- Ina Boyle's Still falls the Rain
- Cooking with trad. Irish dance tunes
- Pepusch Organ Voluntary in C
- Pepusch - Motets
- Monnier Harper - a forgotten talent
- Who was Minna Rider (Christmas carol 2017)
*also with a PDF
re Peter Gibbs, violinist and RAF fighter pilot, including his
confrontation with Herbert von Karajan and Gibbs' death: the Great Mull Air
Mystery.
Last updated 5 May 2019
New page added re Pepusch motets - with free downloadable scores.
Updated PDF re organ builder Stephen White (see Edward Bunting).
Website content © 2011 - 2019, David Byers
