Music for all Occasions
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Da Pacem Domine
Prayer for peace 2024, SSAATTBB
Four Motets
SATB, on seasonal texts 2024.
Cradling and Encircling Arms
SATB carol, text by Edmund Matyjaszek, performed by Ars Vita 2024
Festival Te Deum
(SATB/soloists/orchestra or organ. First performed at the Bembridge Festival 2006 with soloists Gillian Rae-Walker and Angela Millard.
Pageant of the Seasons and the Months
For choir, soloists, two pianos and percussion. First performance 2003 by Voices of the Isle of Wight.
Three Shakespeare Songs
(SATB/piano). Sea Dirge, This England, How sweet the Moonlight. Performed by Ars Vita at Bembridge Church, November 2024.
Four Haiku
(SATB/soprano solo ). Words by James Kirkup. Performed by Ryde Chorus and The Tritone Singers.
Give me the wings of faith
(SSAATTBB). In memory of Raymond Bruce. Performed by the Isle of Wight Orpheus Choir
Small Flower
(SATB). (In memoriam). Words by Mary Dawson
Requiem Aeternam
(SATB, soprano solo, organ/strings). Requiem Introit in three movements.
Indian Prayer
Performed by the Isle of Wight Orpheus Choir.
Music
(SSA/piano). Words by Walter de la Mare). Available from Presto Music.
Farewell
(SSA/piano). Words by Walter de la Mare). Available from Presto Music
Michaelmas
(SATB/organ). Available from Presto Music.
Lenten Anthem
(SS/organ). Available from Presto Music.
Ave Verum Corpus
(1st setting SS/organ, 2nd setting SATB). For St Mary’s Church, Ryde recorded by the Isle of Wight Camerata Choir.
Five Easy Anthems
Blest are the Pure in Heart; Deep peace; God be in my Head; Prayer of St Benedict; The Wind Blows in the Cornfields. For mixed choir and organ.
Ex Ore Infantium
Soprano solo, upper voice choir and organ
First performance by Voices of the Isle of Wight at Quarr Abbey December 2004.
The True Light
The Prayer of Pope Benedict. Four part choir with soprano solo.
Music for Advent/Christmas
Hark, the glad sound
(SATB). Performed at Quarr Abbey by Voices of the Isle of Wight.
The Oxen
(SATB/organ). First performance by the Isle of Wight Orpheus Choir.
Solstice Carol
(SA/org). Performed and recorded by Voices of the Isle of Wight.
Adam lay y-bounden, In Excelsis Gloria
(SA/org). Commissioned by Rougemount School Choir and choir of Newport Cathedral, S. Wales.
Christmas Gloria
(SATB, soloists, organ). Incorporating well known carols with the Latin text and ideal for inclusion in your Christmas concert. Duration 30m. First performance by the Bembridge Singers, December 2004.
Solo Voice
Song Cycles
Tess’s Lament
For mezzo-soprano and string quartet. Words by Thomas Hardy.
The Host of the Air
Words by W.B.Yeats
The Musing Maiden
Words by Thomas Hardy.
Mr Winter
Words by Jean Kenward.
Star Songs
Words by Jean Kenward.
A full list of song cycles and numerous individual solo songs is available on request.