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David Link - Canon for Music

Director of Music at Trinity Cathedral in Sacramento since 1985, David Link studied at Sacramento City College and the Royal School of Church Music in England. His piano study was with Dr. Richard Carpenter, and his organ teachers included James Lang in Sacramento and Christopher Herrick in London. He also studied choral conducting with Paul Hillier at the University of California at Davis.

David was recognized by Outstanding Young Men in America in 1986, and received the Trinity Cathedral "Dean's Award" in 1999. A past-Dean of the Sacramento Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, David was the conductor of the Massed Choir at the Jubilee of Jesus Christ 2000 service held at Sacramento's Arco Arena on January 2, 2000. He founded the Cathedral Music Series and Annual Diocesan Choir Festival, and has taken the Trinity Cathedral Choir on five tours of England in 1990, 1993, 1997, 2000, and 2003.

His many contributions to the Cathedral and in the Diocese were recognized in January of 2001, when Bishop Lamb made him an "Honorary Canon."

David and partner JoAnn live in Sacramento with their daughters, and the summer months frequently find him backpacking and hiking in California's High Sierras. During his sabbatical in the summer of 2004, he climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, at 19,340', the tallest peak in Africa!