David Power was born in London in 1962. His initial interest was rock music - the electronic instrumentals on David Bowie's albums
Low and
'Heroes' being a particular influence. In due course he discovered the music of Boulez and Stockhausen and this prompted a change in direction. He studied composition with Richard Steinitz, Steve Ingham and Roger Marsh.
His
Three Chamber Pieces was premiered at the 1987 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and since then his work has been performed widely throughout the UK. He was Composer-in-Residence at the Go West Festival in 1996 and has received a number of commissions over the years. In December 1995 his
Seven Songs was broadcast on BBC Radio Three. More recently his music has become markedly simpler and makes an increasing use of melody and tonal harmony.
In 1991 David Power and Steve Crowther took over the York concert series "Soundpool", and in 1995, converted it into the Late Music Festival, David working as Artistic Director and Steve as Administrator
He has published a number of essays and reviews mainly on music in periodicals such as the
New Statesman, Tempo, London Magazine and
Abraxas. He has also had two substantial essays published in booklet format by Paupers' Press -
David Lindsay's Vision (preface by Colin Wilson) in 1991 and
David Bowie: A Sense of Art in 2003. A revised version of
David Lindsay's Vision was published as an e-book by Maurice Bassett publications in 2005 and will be published as a paperback in the USA later this year.
A new interest is digital art and so far his digital art has been seen in exhibitions in London, Southampton, Doncaster, Lincoln and Grimsby. His first short film -
The Dominion of Light - was premiered at the 2006 Meniscus Film Festival.
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