Delighted to hear my newly commissioned song for this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day sung by Wellfield Middle School on the ITV New’s last night!
The song titled ‘Ordinary People‘ (this year’s theme) was based on lyrics written by two sisters of a surviving Holocaust family (Marta Josephs and Agi Gilbert) and can be heard sung by two other Newcastle schools here on my Youtube channel. The sheet music will become available on this website soon.
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Sing a Song of Sixpence published in the United States!
Absolutely thrilled that my arrangement of ‘Sing a Song of Sixpence’ has been published in the United States by composer/conductor Jen Wagner. It’s available in print and as a download in two versions for upper voice choir. Please visit her website to purchase copies or to browse at some of her own gorgeous choral music.
Come and sing songs of Peace, Hope and Joy!
Happy New Year! I’m hosting a number of themed singing workshops during 2023 and the first one is coming up in February!
I’m starting with songs that aren’t too complicated (mostly in 2-parts with accompaniment) which would suit community, school or church choirs.
Full details below. Hope to see you there!
50K views on Youtube!
Winter Carol has now had over 50,000 views on my Youtube channel. Quite timely for the Winter Solstice me thinks!
Thank you so much to everyone who has bought the score, directed a performance or just watched the video…it all helps to keep the song alive.
I would love to have some more subscribers on my channel so if you are keen to support my music further, please head across and press the subscribe button. Thanks!
Amazing Grace airplay on Radio 3
Delighted to have my recording of Amazing Grace aired on the In Tune show last night! Thank you to the Radio 3 team for sorting it and to Voices of Hope choir for inspiring me to write the piece just before Lockdown. Scores are available for both SATB and SSA choir here. Listen again at the very end of the show here on i-player.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001dfxx
Christina Rossetti Scores Archived
Thank you to Dr Mary Arseneau at the University of Ottawa, Canada for including 5 of my new choral works in an extensive online archive of music settings based on the poetry by Christina Rossetti. It’s fascinating to see which other composers have also been inspired by her work!
A Day in Nottingham
Yesterday was the very first Choir Community ‘Arrangers Repertoire Day‘ in Nottingham and I was very proud to be involved. Over 20 choir leaders from near and far travelled in to join myself, Abi Moore, Wendy Sergeant and Timothy Allen to sing through new arrangements we have made available at www.choircommunity.net
We each led a short session and gave tips on how to teach the songs to various choirs. It was brilliant to finally meet some of the Choir Community team in person and chat about all things choral! Hoping to do much more of this kind of thing so watch this space!
Winter Carol – a masked performance in Canada
Blimey…just stumbled across this beautiful version of my ‘Winter Carol’ , sung by the treble voices of the Vancouver Youth Choir! Couldn’t resist sharing…
Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia premiere two more works
Fantastic to hear two more of my choral works premiered today by the Chorus of Northern Sinfonia! ‘A City Plum is Not a Plum’ and ‘A Bird Song’ (both settings of Christina Rossetti poems) sounded exactly as I imagined! BRAVO to all involved!
‘Northumberland’ premiere
Thank you and congratulations to Kathryn Davidson and Tynedale Community Choir for a wonderful first performance of my newly commissioned piece ‘Northumberland’ last night at your 20th Birthday Concert at the Queens Hall Arts in Hexham. The song for unaccompanied SATB choir was based on the poem by W. W. Gibson…Hexham’s very own poet! The score will be available here for other choirs to enjoy very soon…