David Poon, BMus (UBC), ARCCO, is a professional organist, choirmaster, continuo player, accompanist, teacher, adjudicator, and music engraver based on the Sunshine Coast and Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Having played in churches his entire adult life, he is enamoured with Anglican, Byzantine, and Roman Catholic liturgy. He is simultaneously determined to increase the airtime of sacred music in both church and secular spaces.
David is also accompanist for Choralations Children’s Choir and music director for the Coast Messiah Choir, MOTET chamber choir, and Vespersong. He plays regularly with the Gallery Singers, United Voices Choir, and the VSO Brass Quintet and is a ubiquitous coach and collaborator for music students on the Lower Coast.
His transcription projects include barless editions of Thomas Tomkins’ sacred works, 16-bit JRPG soundtracks, and 20th-century organ music for viols. Outside of teaching, performing, arranging, and composing, he is often found with too many board games and not enough cheese while inflicting modes of limited transposition upon his wife Sarah and their four children.