| Birthname: | David Rumsey |
| Birth Date: | 30 March 1939 |
| Birth Place: | Sydney |
| Death Place: | Basel, Switzerland |
| Education: | Newington College Sydney Conservatorium of Music |
| Occupation: | Organist |
David Edward Rumsey (30 March 1939 – 12 February 2017) was an Australian-born organist and composer.
He was born in Sydney, attended Newington College,[1] and studied organ with Norman Johnston at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he would later also teach.
Graduating in 1963, he moved to Europe to study with Marie-Claire Alain in Paris,and then with Anton Heiller in Vienna.
In 1966 he returned to Australia together with fellow Heiller student,Christa Brosch – they married and had two daughters, Stella and Marie.In 1968 he was artistic director of the first Adelaide organ festival.[2]
He married Elizabeth Jones in 1998 and they moved together to Basel,Switzerland, in 2000.Rumsey died in Basel in 2017, aged 77.[3] [4] [5]