Secular Choral
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Hear My Heart Sing
SATB choir
5 mins
2024
Commissioned by Lucis choir in Bath, with the support of the Francis Routh Trust. Text by Helen Eastman. Buy the music
Epiphany
SATB choir
4 mins
2022
Commissioned by the Thomas Tallis Society choir, London. Text by Hywel John. Contact for a perusal score
Birdchant
SMeATBarB choir & optional ensemble
7 mins
2021
Commissioned for the BBC Proms 2021, premiered by the BBC Singers. A response to Le Chant des Oiseaux by Clement Janequin. Buy the music
A Ternary of Littles
SMeATBarB
8 mins
2020
Commissioned by the BBC Singers, and recorded by Epiphoni Consort. Buy the music
Precious Things
SATB choir with divisi
7 mins
2020
Premiered by the BBC Singers and recorded by Epiphoni Consort. Texts by Antony Dunn, Helen Eastman and Andrew George. Buy the music
The Singers
SATB choir
4 mins
2019
Recorded by Epiphoni Consort. Text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Buy the music
Two Songs of Spring
SSA choir with divisi
5 mins
2018
Composed for the choir of St Paul’s Girls’ School and recorded by Epiphoni Consort. Texts by Thomas Nashe and William Shakespeare. Buy the music
Perhaps
SATB or SSA choir
4 mins
2017
Composed for the choir of St Paul’s Girls’ School and recorded by Epiphoni Consort. Text by Vera Brittain. Buy the music (SATB and SSA)
If we shadows have offended
SATB choir
2 mins
2017
Puck’s closing lines from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Recorded by Epiphoni Consort. Buy the music
L’Imagination
SATB choir & organ
4 mins
2016
Composed for the choir of St Paul’s Girls’ School and premiered at St Paul’s Cathedral in London. Text by Baudelaire. Contact for a perusal score
The Winter it is Past
SATB choir or SSA choir
4 mins
2014
Recorded by the BBC Singers and by Juice Vocal Ensemble. Text by Robert Burns. Buy the music (SATB and SSA)
Esdras, Sir Isaac Newton and me
SSA choir and piano
7 mins
2013
Composed for the choir of the Lady Eleanor Holles School. Text by Christopher Smart. Contact for a perusal score
I Sing of Love
SATB choir
17 mins
2012
Commissioned and premiered by the Seattle Pro Musica. Performed by Epiphoni Consort. Texts from the Jewish, Islamic and Christian traditions. Buy the music
Two Choral Fanfares
SATB or SSA choir
3 mins
2011
Recorded by the BBC Singers. Texts by Charles Causley and Siegfried Sassoon. Buy the music (SATB and SSA)
Anyone lived in a pretty how town
SSAATTBarB choir
6 mins
2011
Recorded by the BBC Singers. Text by E.E. Cummings. Contact for a perusal score
Revelation Window
SATB double choir
5 mins
2010
Commissioned and premiered by the Esoterics (Seattle). Recorded by the BBC Singers. Wordless text based on the ‘Revelation’ window in Manchester Cathedral, UK. Buy the music
A Medieval Bestiary
SATB choir
25 mins
2010
Commissioned, premiered and recorded by the BBC Singers. Based on a 13th century bestiary in the Bodleian library and three medieval animal poems. Buy the music
The Death of Balder
SATB choir or 12 solo voices
25 mins
2007
Commissioned, premiered and recorded by the BBC Singers. Based on Kevin Crossley-Holland’s re-telling of the Norse myths. Buy the music
Three Swans
SATB choir
7 mins
2006
Recorded by the BBC Singers. Three songs about swans with texts by Stevie Smith and two anonymous authors. Buy the music
