David Briggs became Director of Music at Gloucester Cathedral in 1994 following appointments at Truro Cathedral, Hereford Cathedral and King's College, Cambridge. In August 1995 he conducted his first Three Choirs Festival to much critical acclaim. In August 1998 he conducted his second 'home' Festival, including the first performance of his own Te Deum for soloists, chorus and orchestra.

As one of the most notable organists of his generation, he circumnavigated the globe three times in 1997. During his U. S. tour in February 1997 he opened the prestigious Los Angeles Bach Festival, where he was compared to Dupre and Horowitz and nominated successor to Virgil Fox and Pierre Cochereau. In April 1997 he led a highly successful tour of Australia and New Zealand with the Gloucester Cathedral Choir. Other highlights of 1997 included a summer recital at the Hallgrimskirkja, in Reykjavik, Iceland, and a solo tour of Australia and New Zealand in October, including a recital on the largest organ in the southern hemisphere, at Sydney Town Hall. In October 1998 David Briggs undertook a three-week tour of the U. S. under the auspices of Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Management. This recording was made during his Los Angeles stop on that tour.

He has made numerous commercial recordings and his recent recording from Gloucester won a 'Soundings' Award in Gramophone and a coveted place on the cover CD. The BBC Music Magazine recently gave his recording of his own transcription of Mahler's Symphony No. 5 a five-star rating: "Briggs's arrangement of Mahler's Fifth is splendid in every way, full of imaginative touches, thoroughly organistic, and performed here with an unerring sense of style and architectural proportion."

A leading exponent in the art of improvisation, he was the first Englishman ever to win the Tournemire Prize at the St. Alban's International Improvisation Competition and his CD of organ improvisations has broken new ground in the United Kingdom. He is Visiting Tutor in Improvisation at the Royal Northern College of Music.

His greatest ambition is to gain his private pilot's license.