The trailer for new film by Sophia Carr Gomm, created as a visual reaction to my vocal work: A Short Walk
List of Works
List of works, grouped in order of date composed, most recent first. See below for recordings.
2022
The shepherd girl SATB + Sop solo 3’
This contemporary Christmas text is set as a short, simple carol accessible for choirs of all sizes. Originally commissioned by The Tower of London (Chapel Royal).
The world around us SATB x2 + Children’s choir 25’
This large-scale work was commissioned by The Marian Consort to educate children about Climate Change, Recycling and Renewal. The piece is for children’s choir of any standard and SATB choir. It consists of four main sections representing each of the four seasons in which the children join in a variety of textures and harmonies designed to invoke the ever changing, ever renewing world around us. Between these are three interludes in which the story of ‘The Gribbin’, a magical creature who takes care of trees, is whimsically set to music.
2021
Deus venerunt gentes SSATBarB 3'
Commissioned by I Fagiolini for a first performance with actress Tamsin Greig as Narrator. This piece weaves in and out of spoken and sung word whilst vividly depicting the emotional and at times violent imagery found in the texts. I Fagiolini have so far performed this in London, Norwich and Lichfield, with international performances planned for later this year.
Ave maris Stella SMATB 3'
Commissioned by The Marian Consort. This simple but affecting piece was first performed at the Dunster Festival and is being recorded by The Marian Consort in 2022.
2020
The King’s breakfast Mezzo & Baritone duet 3'
Commissioned by Helen Charlston and Mike Craddock for ‘The Isolation Songbook’, this duet sets the comic poetry of AA Milne.
2019
The Lord is our refuge SATB 4'
Commissioned by Emmanuel College Cambridge under the direction of Peter Foggitt, this piece sets vivid imagery of Psalm 46.
In the Bleak Midwinter SATB 3'30
Commissioned by Anna Keat. An accessible contemporary take on the traditional Christmas text.
In This Sight SATB + ORgan 4'
Commissioned by Norwich Cathedral for the enthronement of Bishop Graham Usher. Sets words by Mother Julian of Norwich.
I am the true vine SATB 3'
A short, easy anthem in four parts.
arise my love SATB 1'30
Commissioned as an introit, this short and compact piece is perfect for wedding ceremonies.
2018
For The Fallen SATB 6'
Commissioned by Fulham Camerata and their director Harry Castle, For The Fallen poignantly remembers those who died in the world wars.
Night prayer, compline renewed SSAATTBB 45'
Commissioned by The London Contemporary Festival of Church Music for it’s first performance within the festival from Greg Skidmore and the Lacock Scholars. Night Prayer sets the service of compline to a through-flowing soundscape that experiments with words, form and the human voice.
The short walk of a madman SSAATTBB 30'
A work in four movements for eight solo voices. This piece sets four poems by E E Cummings alongside a number of other texts. It explores issues relating to loneliness, madness, journeying and migration.
2017
Sometime I Sigh SATB (divisi solos) 4’
This choral work set the poetry of Thomas Wyatt. Written for the wedding of Christiano Atillo Lombardo to Bruce McKelvany it was premiered in St Martin in the Fields, London in 2017. It sets the text simply using the antiphonal effects of a far off solo quartet.
Holy City SATBSATB 6’
Holy City was commissioned by the choir of the Chapel Royal within The Tower of London. It sets the text most famously used by William Byrd ‘Civitas Sancti’. Full programme notes on request.
Sing Lullaby SATB 4'30''
A Christmas carol, using a simple lullaby theme to set a traditional text.
2016
The Turn SSATBarB 45’
The Turn was commissioned by Robert Jacobs and ‘Reverie Choir’ and has since been performed on numerous occasions and commercially recorded by ‘The Fieri Consort’. The piece is designed to be performed with sections of Monteverdi’s Lamento D’Arianna interspersed between it’s four movements. It extends the narrative and changes the perspective of Monteverdi’s famous lament, and in doing so explores new musical concepts focussed around movement of sound over distance.
Songs of Sehnsucht Bass-Baritone, piano 11’
This Song Cycle was written for Bass Baritone Michael Mofidian and commissioned by Ensemble XY. The cycle explores the theme of ‘Sehnsucht’ and the various was in which this almost indescribable feeling can manifest itself setting poetry by Walt Whitman, ee cummings and others.
O Llama de Amor Viva SSAATTBB 5’
Inspired by plainsong found in the manuscripts of the monasteries that line the famous Pilgrimage to Santiago in northern Spain, this piece grows out of its formal religious context into a setting of contemporary Spanish love poetry. Musically, the piece reflects these two different worlds with more rigorous and formal canonic writing setting the text of the plainsong which is then broken down into apparently more free and expressive lines and textures.
A Closed Garden SSATBarB 4’
A setting of various texts from the Song of Songs. This piece is written for six solo voices and reflects the fascinating imagery and undeniable sexual tension found within these texts.
A Night of Snow SSATBarB 8’
Whilst one soprano sings a solo line directly taken from the work of Tarquinio Merula (Hor Che Tempo), the other six voices weave around it, slowly building and overtaking the soprano melody with words first set by Poulenc - Paul Eluard’s ‘Un Soir De Neige’.
2007 - 2015
Libera Nos I; SATB x3, 7’
A Hymn of the Nativity; SSAATTBB, tenor solo, 6’30’’
Come Holy Spirit; SSAATTBB + Sop duet, 4’30’’
Swallows; SSAATTBB, 3’30’’
The Evening Watch; SSAATTBB + Sop solo, 5’
Blessed be that Maid Marie; SATB, 3’30’’
Unto Dust; SS(divi)AATTBB, 4’30’’
Where is Thy God; SSATB, 4’30’’
Matins Responsory; SSATB (+SSATB quartet), 5’30’’
Of the Stem of Jesse; SSAATTBB, 5’
There is no Rose; SSATB, 4’30’’
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