Bach Dramatic Visionary

Tom Hammond-Davies is a Bach specialist and choral-orchestral conductor known for dramatic, high-impact performances and ambitious long-term projects.

He is Founder of the Oxford Bach Soloists, praised for its “immediate, enthralling unity and cohesiveness” (The Guardian). Its debut recording, Bach Cantatas (Signum, 2024), was hailed by BBC Music Magazine as “auspicious Bach auspiciously performed… scrupulously detailed… persuasively navigating the transition from despair to exultation.”

Founded in 2017, the 500th anniversary year of the Reformation, OBS was established to perform J. S. Bach’s complete vocal works chronologically and in real time, inviting audiences into an ongoing artistic journey through the cantatas, Passions, and major liturgical works.

Former Director of Music at multiple Oxford institutions, including Wadham College, Mansfield College, and the City Church of St Michael at the North Gate, Tom served as Director of Music at Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Dallas from 2024 to 2026. There he led a major music program spanning the Anglican choral tradition, contemporary worship, concert programming, and chorister education.

Tom trained under Paul Spicer at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Conservatoire (HonFRBC) in 2025. His work has been heard at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, the Three Choirs Festival, and the Oxford International Song Festival. In 2024, he made his New York conducting debut at the Park Avenue Armory in Shall We Gather at the River, collaborating with Peter Sellars, Reginald Mobley, and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street.

Tom is based in Dallas and is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom.