Unaccompanied SATB choir (2014-15 rev 2020) 1. Break, break, break – Alfred Tennyson 2. The Song Shop – Annette Wynne 3. Pack, Clouds, Away – Thomas Heywood Hearing local amateur choirs singing part songs are some of my earliest musical memories, and these Three Vintage Part Songs are something of a tribute to the old […]
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Unaccompanied SATB (2023) 1. Will you come? 2. Interval 3. The Lofty Sky Commissioned by Hereford Chamber Choir for their ‘Dymock Poets Re-imagined’ project, and first performed at the 2023 Ledbury Poetry Festival, in St Michael & All Angels Church, Ledbury on 8th July 2023. The poetry of Edward Thomas has been an important influence […]
Two narrators, four harps, choir and organ (2019 rev.2022) Set in ancient Alexandria this dramatic cantata juxtaposes the lives of two martyrs of antiquity – the pioneering mathematician and philosopher Hypatia (c.355-415AD) who was brutally murdered by an extremist Christian mob, and the legend of St Katherine of Alexandria (of Katherine-wheel fame), who was tortured […]
2-20 parts + optional percussion (2019) These 20 rounds of varying difficulty feature original settings of nursery rhymes, riddles and more. Though written primarily for children, they may also provide a source of enjoyment and experimentation for instrumental groups and adults alike. Illustration by Pete Bryden Preview/buy score here
Unaccompanied SSAA choir (2019) …Luciferum… was written for Jo Williamson and her Cantabile Girls’ Choir. The title which refers to the ‘Bringer of light’ is taken from Psalm 109 (Vulgate), and the music elaborates on a sense of emerging light. …Luciferum… was premiered by Cantabile Girls’ Choir on Saturday 20th April at Hoddinott Hall, Millennium Centre, Cardiff […]
SATB and piano (2014) R. L. Stevenson I. Prologue: “Fair isle at sea…” II. Summer Sun III. The Gardener IV. Autumn Fires V. Night and Day VI. Epilogue: Requiem Written for the Birchpole Singers, this song-cycle is written in the same vein as R. L. Stevenson’s verse; his Garden Days, itself from A Childs Garden […]
Amateur SATB, solo soprano and piano (2017) Missa Brevis (inc. Shakespeare, Hesiod) Listen to an excerpt: Ad Majorem Gastropoda Gloriam Snail Litany was first performed in Yarpole Church, Herefordshire by the Birchpole Singers on 19th May 2017, conducted by Andrew Morris. Preview/buy score here
SATB and organ (2017) Text – A. Walker Listen to an excerpt: I. Long walk to the beach II. Cradle song III. Childhood beach IV. Sojourner V. St Anthony then and now On first reading Ann Walker’s A Cornish Dozen I immediately felt its musical potential, and felt I would be able to provide a […]
Unaccompanied SATB (2015) Sweet silence after bells! deep in the enamour’d ear soft incantation dwells. Filling the rapt still sphere a liquid crystal swims, precarious yet clear. Those metal quiring hymns shaped ether so succinct: a while, or it dislimns, the silence, wanly prinkt with forms of lingering notes, inhabits, close. distinct; and night, the […]
12 Trumpets, 2 Percussion, Piano, Organ, SATB soli, SATB chorus, 2 Db (2015) The idea to set Edgar Allen Poe’s four part poem The Bells came from a number of ideas that I had brewing at the time, and my choice of text was in fact the final piece of the puzzle which served to […]