A year ago I was commissioned to compose a brand new song for Beaconsfield Festival of Choirs! I chose to set a poem by Walter de la Mare called ‘Trees’ for all the various choir types including a treble only version for schools to sing. Last weekend I had the great pleasure of attending this wonderful festival in Buckinghamshire to not only hear the song performed for the first time, but also to conduct all 30 choirs singing it jointly across 5 different concerts! Massive thanks to Jane Smith for organising such a brilliant event and to Timothy Allen for recommending me this year!  I was delighted with the results and will be making the song available for all other choir very soon. Here is the final performance I conducted at the festival sung by seven choirs! https://youtu.be/tHv1UPUBKeY?si=WzC1djoxU4Mn-PIx