David Pope

David graduated in Classics and French as a Choral Scholar at

New College, Oxford in 1988 and has worked as a languages
schoolteacher for the past 17 years. He began to teach himself
Spanish in 1993 and is now completing the one year MSt course
in European Literature at Exeter College during a year’s
Sabbatical from his teaching job. His research centres on musical
influences in the writings of the Cuban musicologist and novelist
Alejo Carpentier with special reference to his late novella
Concierto Barroco. David is an accomplished professional
countertenor singer who specialises in Baroque performance
practice. His interests in research, singing and Spain have led him
to found the Oxford University Zarzuela Society this year, seeking
to maximise recognition of this undervalued and underperformed
Spanish operatic art form in Oxford and the UK.