Dr David Fligg

Dr David Fligg is Principal Lecturer in Classical Music and teaches on the College’s undergraduate and postgraduate Music programmes. 

His teaching specialisms comprise contemporary classical composition, and musicology.  His current research interests include investigating the composers and musicians who were imprisoned during the Holocaust in the Terezin concentration camp. In particular, he is researching the composer and pianist Gideon Klein who was interned in Terezin, before being murdered in Auschwitz shortly after his 26^th birthday. One of the outcomes from this research is the paper, ‘Searching for Gideon’, which David gave at the annual conference of the American Musicological Society in San Francisco in November 2011.  David’s scholarly activities in this field also enabled Leeds College Of Music to present the International Terezin Music Conference in February 2012. David is on the committee of the International Centre for Suppressed Music at London University’s SOAS.

In 2010, his book 'A Concise Guide to Orchestral Music' was published by Mel Bay in the USA (available on Amazon), and he has contributed to various journals and magazines. His compositions include a Symphony, the chamber opera Esau and Jacob, concertos, and number of chamber works, and since 2004 he has been an adjudicator for the prestigious annual British Composer Awards.

Whilst at Leeds College of Music, David Fligg has been previously involved in various higher education music-related consultancies, including working as an Institutional Auditor and Subject Specialist Reviewer for the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA).  He is currently Associate Conductor of the West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra. He gained his undergraduate degree at the University of Leeds, and studied for his MMus at London University before embarking on his PhD in Composition at Leeds. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians.

David lives in Leeds with his partner. Away from music, he is a keen gardener, enjoys cooking, and admits to spending an immense amount of time listening to, and reading about, music.