James Davey is one of the UK's most distinguished and respected choral directors, in demand for his work as conductor, choir trainer, arranger and adjudicator. His work with choirs covers a huge range of musical styles, from backing well known rock bands to Barbershop Quartets, and preparing choirs for Operatic productions to football chanting.

He is Musical Director for Chantage, winners of the Malta International Choral Competition Grand Prix 2015 and BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year 2006, the Chandos Chamber Choir, Amici Cantate, Halstead Choral and 4Tunes, the award-winning staff choir at Channel 4 TV (a Music in Offices choir).

Formerly the chief choral advisor for the BBC’s sheet music archives, James has delivered projects for the BBC Singers’ Education Department, as well as regularly conducting and preparing choirs for broadcasts on television and radio. He is also Director of ChoirFixer Limited, fixing professional ensembles for recording sessions and events for films, TV advertising and the entertainment industry.
James is also a conducting tutor an member of the Council of Practitioners for the Association of British Choral Directors, and leads choirs on courses for the Chester Choral Week (formerly Cranleigh Choral Week), the Dart Festival Chorus and the Sherborne Summer School of Music. In 2018 he co-founded the London International Choral Conducting Competition (LICCC), the first of it's kind in the UK, based at the Royal Academy of Music. More recently he has been appointed Chorus Master for the Saffron Opera Group, preparing Wagner’s epic opera scores for concert productions, including; Tristan and Isolde, Parsifal and, in 2022, Tannhäuser.