David Squires

Who is David Squires?

David Squires is a Canadian composer and the dean of the School of the Arts, Media and Culture at Trinity Western University. He received a B.Mus. from University of Western Ontario in 1979, a M.Mus. University of Toronto in 1981, and a Ph.D. State University of New York at Buffalo in 1993. He has been on the faculty at TWU music for 15 years and was a worship pastor for 11 years. His recent compositions include "Where Angels Dance", a concerto for violin and orchestra premiered in April 2007, "God Ever Breath", for mezzo-soprano, flute, piano, string orchestra, premiered in November 2005, and "Table Songs", a communion liturgy for flexible instrumentation, premiered in November 2004. "Where Angels Danced" was premiered by the Trinity Western Orchestra with violinist Brielle Goheen.

Squires is the initiator of TWU's Worship Studies Minor and has been instrumental in developing the program. Beginning in 2003, the program studies contemporary worship music, issues regarding worship leadership, and worship theology and history. In 2007, he was appointed the new dean of the Faculty of Professional Studies and Performing Arts, which is now the School of the Arts, Media and Culture.