Secular Choral

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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. Contact for a perusal score


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