David Banney

David Banney is an Australian conductor, composer and music educator. He is the Artistic Director of the Newcastle Music Festival, the Artistic Director of the Christ Church Camerata, and Co-Director of the Newcastle Cathedral College of Music.
David won the ABC Young Conductor of the Year Award in 1995. He has conducted orchestras and ensembles including the Queensland Symphony, Queensland Philharmonic, Opera Queensland, Queensland Ballet, Adelaide Symphony and the West Australian Symphony. He has worked extensively with youth orchestras, including QYOI and QYOII, the European and British Isles Medical Students Orchestras, the Sydney Youth Philharmonic and the Newcastle Strings. He has performed in the British Isles, Germany, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Portugal and Spain. English conductor, Vernon Hanley, rated Banney as "...easily among the best half-dozen young conductors that I have encountered in the forty years of my career..." 