David Hughes was recently appointed Director of Music at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. He is a composer, conductor, and organist who is in demand as a recitalist and an instructor of Gregorian chant. He has developed choral programs at several notable parishes in Connecticut, including St. Mary’s Church in Norwalk, where he oversaw a program of seven choirs; the St. Mary’s Student Schola sang regularly for Masses in Norwalk, as well as traveling to sing in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Madrid. Most recently he served as Organist & Choirmaster at St. Patrick Oratory in Waterbury, where his work included a choir for Catholic students at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.  He is the founder of Viri Galilæi, an ensemble of men from the New York area who have gathered every week for the past nine years to sing Vespers and medieval polyphony.  He is on the board of directors of the Church Music Association of America, and serves on the faculty of its annual Colloquium.  He is also a board member of the Roman Forum, for whose Summer Symposium at Lake Garda, Italy, he serves as director of music.  Hughes’s compositional output includes a number of sacred works, including Masses and motets.  His first opera, Gracchus, with a libretto by Fr. Richard Munkelt, was premiered last year in his hometown of Stamford, Connecticut.  He is a graduate of Yale College.