David Buley (ED 2500, 2515, ED 2520, ED 4870/71; Ed 6504; Interim Music Education Co-ordinator)
David Buley enjoys his lengthy career of teaching classroom and private lessons in music, conducting choirs, accompanying for ballet companies and playing various instruments. David is Associate Professor of Music Education in the Faculty of Education at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. He is a graduate of the University of Kings’ College and St. Mary’s University in Halifax, NS, and holds graduate degrees in choral conducting, sacred music, liturgical studies and musicology through study at Westminster Choir College and Drew University, where he has studied primarily with Robin Leaver, Robert Carwithen, Alan Crowell, James Jordan, and Joseph Flummerfelt.
David is also the Music Director at St. Mary’s Anglican Church in St. John’s. His lengthy resumé includes work as Organist for the Princeton Theological Seminary Touring Choir, and Music Director of: The Windsor Classic Chorale, (Windsor, Ontario); The Couchiching Young Singers (Orillia, Ontario); Saint George’s Round Church (Halifax, Nova Scotia); as well as of the Acadia University Chorus and the Acadia Vocal Ensemble in Nova Scotia, and the Young Sudbury Singers, Ariadne Women’s Choir and the Church of the Epiphany in Sudbury, Ontario. David also leads and sings with the a cappella vocal ensemble, Octatonic Decadence – a group that has regularly offered music at Sundays @ Seven at the Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in St. John’s, NL.
With deep interest in music and education in and through community, David is a recipient of the Rainbow District School Board’s Joan Mantle Music Trust Community Award as well as the Sudbury Community Builders Award of Excellence. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Strong Harbour Strings and of the Bruneau Center For Excellence in Choral Music. David holds a Professional Certificate and is a License candidate (DEIEB) in Jaques-Dalcroze Eurhythmics, and will give a keynote address at the International Conference on Dalcroze Studies in Pittsburgh, in 2023.
Current community partnerships that David enjoys being part of include the Lullaby Project-NL; the HMP-Phoenix Garden Project; and the SSHRC-funded project: Community Music in Coastal Labrador. Married and devoted to Jan, David is also owned by a vibrant border-collie, Nelllie, and spends a good deal of time singing outdoors with the largest choir on earth.
David Buley enjoys his lengthy career of teaching classroom and private lessons in music, conducting choirs, accompanying for ballet companies and playing various instruments. David is Associate Professor of Music Education in the Faculty of Education at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. He is a graduate of the University of Kings’ College and St. Mary’s University in Halifax, NS, and holds graduate degrees in choral conducting, sacred music, liturgical studies and musicology through study at Westminster Choir College and Drew University, where he has studied primarily with Robin Leaver, Robert Carwithen, Alan Crowell, James Jordan, and Joseph Flummerfelt.
David is also the Music Director at St. Mary’s Anglican Church in St. John’s. His lengthy resumé includes work as Organist for the Princeton Theological Seminary Touring Choir, and Music Director of: The Windsor Classic Chorale, (Windsor, Ontario); The Couchiching Young Singers (Orillia, Ontario); Saint George’s Round Church (Halifax, Nova Scotia); as well as of the Acadia University Chorus and the Acadia Vocal Ensemble in Nova Scotia, and the Young Sudbury Singers, Ariadne Women’s Choir and the Church of the Epiphany in Sudbury, Ontario. David also leads and sings with the a cappella vocal ensemble, Octatonic Decadence – a group that has regularly offered music at Sundays @ Seven at the Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in St. John’s, NL.
With deep interest in music and education in and through community, David is a recipient of the Rainbow District School Board’s Joan Mantle Music Trust Community Award as well as the Sudbury Community Builders Award of Excellence. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Strong Harbour Strings and of the Bruneau Center For Excellence in Choral Music. David holds a Professional Certificate and is a License candidate (DEIEB) in Jaques-Dalcroze Eurhythmics, and will give a keynote address at the International Conference on Dalcroze Studies in Pittsburgh, in 2023.
Current community partnerships that David enjoys being part of include the Lullaby Project-NL; the HMP-Phoenix Garden Project; and the SSHRC-funded project: Community Music in Coastal Labrador. Married and devoted to Jan, David is also owned by a vibrant border-collie, Nelllie, and spends a good deal of time singing outdoors with the largest choir on earth.
