David Stanley BEM is a disability rights campaigner, musical director, teacher, composer and concert producer. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, King’s College London, the Royal Academy of Music and the Institute of Education.
David was awarded the Medal of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s 2021 New Year Honours List for services to people with Special Needs and he received the UK Prime Minister’s Point of Light Award at the Royal Albert Hall in 2024 for services to others. David was bestowed the Honour of Freeman of the City of Southend-on-Sea in 2023.
David has done multiple shows internationally and across UK. In 2019 David launched The Music Man Project in Nepal in partnership with the Dolma Foundation. After just 6 hours of teaching, children from the Navjoti Special School in Kathmandu performed their first ever Music Man Project concert in front of 300 people, including the British Ambassador to Nepal, the late Richard Morris.
David joined the board of Dolma Foundation in the year 2022 and has been a constant support and advisor in the existing framework of the Foundation and with the future plannings.
