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This is a new free
listing for composers, and lyricists, of new choral music or arrangements, either in preparation or
ready for performance.
Please forward any details
Phillip Tolley |
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Adrian Cuello is a Colombian
composer currently resident in Zaragoza, Spain, where he practices
his profession as a opera singer, choir director, musical arranger
and composer. As a composer her focuses mainly on pieces for choir.
At present he receives orders from choirs in Spain and abroad. In
his compositions he has a single goal - to make the resultant piece
as faithful as possible to the technical requirements of the choir.
Visit his website at
www.audio.ya.com/adriancuello |
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Alex
Patterson is a Northern Irish-born composer whose musical
spectrum covers instrumental works for orchestras and small chamber
ensembles to pieces for choirs. He has just graduated from the
Univeristy of Nottingham majoring in musical composition and will be
taking up the post of composer-in-residence at St Barnabas
Cathedral, Nottingham for the year 2009/10. Further
details available at: http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/index.php?sm=account.details&uid=80189 |
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Alexander Campkin is a British
composer and conductor. Alexander studied at Oxford University, the
Royal Academy of Music in 2008 and in Vienna. He was a finalist in
the 2008 British Composer Awards and the NCEM Composers Award, a
prize winner in the 2010 “Musica Sacra” International Composition
Competition in Poland, and highly commended in the BBC Proms Young
Composers’ Competition. Alexander was recently appointed
Composer-in-Residence in Neresheim Abbey in Germany and
Composer-in-Residence of the Fulham Camerata Choir and Orchestra;
other commissions have been from the BBC Performing Arts Fund, the
Southbank Centre, the Royal School of Church Music, the Manson
Ensemble, the Royal Academy String Orchestra, the Kaxan String
Quartet and Pusey House Choir, Oxford. His music has received
performances by the London Sinfonietta, the BBC Singers, the Vilnius
Municipal Choir (Lithuania), Trinity Choir Cambridge, Polish Chamber
Choir, National Youth Choir GB, Jeunnesse Kammerchor (Vienna) and
the Tyler Youth Orchestra (Texas). Venues include the Berliner
Philharmonie, Ulster Hall (Belfast), Künstlerhaus Bethanien
(Berlin), Theater des Augenblicks (Vienna), St Paul’s Cathedral,
Westminster Abbey, Duke’s Hall, Cal Poly Performing Arts Centre (San
Luis Obispo, USA) and Grace Catheddral (San Francisco). His music
has been performed in major music festivals in the UK and Europe,
and has been the subject of a number of radio broadcasts in Europe,
the US and South America.His choral music is available online
http://www.alexandercampkin.co.uk/composing.htm |
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Allan Bevan (b. 1951,
Toronto, Canada) is a graduate of the School of Music, the
University of Windsor, and holds a Mmus degree in Choral Conducting
from the University of Alberta and a PhD in Composition from the
University of Calgary. His choral music has won awards in many
national and international choral composition events including the
2002 Ruth Watson Henderson Choral Composition Competition, sponsored
by Choirs Ontario. He is a three-time winner in the
Association of Canadian Choral Conductors' Composition Competition
(1999, 2001, 2003).Visit his web site at
www.allanbevan.ca |
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Alan Bullard's choral music is
published by OUP, Novello and many others and is performed all over
the world. It ranges from large scale cantatas to short carols, anthem
and works for young voices. Full details are available from
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Alan Smith
is an award-winning composer specialising in choral music. His
work, much of it published in both the UK and America, is regularly
performed in churches and cathedrals throughout Britain and abroad.
His pieces range from large scale (for example, he is just
completing a Mass setting for St Woolos' Cathedral) to short
unaccompanied items and he has written music which is suitable for
choirs of all abilities. For further details, please contact the
composer by e-mail:
alan@smith22d.fsnet.co.uk or visit his website:
http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/alansmith
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Andrew Cusworth is a British composer with a
particular interest in choral music. He has written music for choirs
of all levels ranging from small children to experienced and
professional singers, and is always ready to receive queries about
commissioning new works. For more information about Andrew's music
and to contact him please visit his website
www.cusworthonline.com |
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Andrew
Goddard is a Fellow of the London College of
Music and has been composing for over forty years. A book
of new Christmas Carols called 'Christmas for Choirs, Book
1' has just been released for SATB choirs containing ten
pieces. Further choral pieces for male voice, mixed voice
and ladies choirs is available from Westcountry Music
Ltd. Andrew won the Questor's Choir New Christmas Carol
Composing Competition prize in November 2005 with his
setting of 'Rise up, Shepherd, and Follow'. He also won the Composition
prize held as part of the second British International Male
Voice Choir Festival in Cornwall, in April 2005 with his
piece entitled 'A Hymn for Cornwall'. In 2006 he repeated
his Carol composition success with 'Follow the Star (or
Dilyn y Seren in welsh) with won a competition organised by
welsh telecvision SC4 and the Daily Post newspaper.. The
winning carol was sung by Bryn Terfel and a 30 strongh choir
in Cardiff in a subsequent broadcast. For more
information visit
www.westcountry-music.co.uk |
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Andrew Downes
won a choral scholarship to
St. John’s College, Cambridge (in 1969), where he gained an
MA degree specialising in composition; and in 1974 went on
to study with Herbert Howells at the Royal College of
Music. He is now Head of the School of Composition and
Creative Studies at Birmingham Conservatoire. He has
composed a large
number of works for Sacred Services and High Voices. Details
of all his music, including critical appraisals and sound
samples, can be found at
www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~downlyn.
Scores of his Sacred Music,both accompanied and
unaccompanied, including I Will Lift up mine Eyes unto
the Hills, In Peace I will Lie Down and Sleep, The Lord is
my Shepherd, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, O Love the Lord
all ye His Saints, Motet and Mass O Magnum Mysterium, O
Praise the Lord, Preces and Responses (2 sets, 1986 and
1997), Coventry Carol/Veni Emmanuel (arrangements) can
be viewed by visiting the website of the British Music
Information Centre at:
http://www.bmic.co.uk/collection/searchform.asp
type “Downes” in Composer Box,, click “submit”, then look
down the alphabetical list of pieces, and click on the
relevant treble clef on the RH of the page. Otherwise visit
www.andrewdownes.com |
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Anthony Marshall. I write
contrapuntal music, so far, primarily for choirs and in the 'Alla
Capella' style. Details available from
abmossview@tiscali.co.uk |
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Bernard
Hughes has written and arranged several works for
choir, including commissions from the BBC Singers and the New London
Children's Choir. Pieces for children’s choir include the
widely-performed Nonsense Songs. More information at
www.bernardhughes.co.uk. |
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Brian Blyth Daubney is a
Lincolnshire composer who has written a considerable amount of choral
music both 'a cappella' and with organ accompaniment. Much of it is
suitable for church use and several extended pieces (Stabat Mater,
Requiem and Six Psalms) are ideal for concert performance. Please
contact
brian@blyth96.fsnet.co.uk for further details. |
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Bruce & Jennifer
Searl compose outstanding contemporary Children’s Choral
music published by Aardvark Hill. Their music blends two rare
qualities in the world of choral music of any era – great music that
kids love to sing. Each song has strong, beautiful melodies and
meaningful lyrics that your children will love to sing over and over
again. From the toe tapping jazzy songs like “I Love You” or “The
Postman’s Rag”, to the tender and haunting Irish folk songs like
“None Is Fairer” and the emotionally moving “Forever Without End”,
your choristers deserved to be treated to songs by Bruce & Jennifer
Searl. Few songs connect as strongly with singers and audiences that
they actually evoke tears from your listeners, yet such is the power
of these songs. Most pieces were commissioned for the Oregon
Children’s Choral Festival, where each piece turned out to be
“Festival Favorites” among singers, directors and the audiences
alike. Come listen to audio samples of fun lullaby’s like “Sleepy
Time” and award winning songs like “Tell Me How You Love Me”, “Our
World”, “I’ll Follow After You” and “Forever Without End” in the
children’s choral section at
www.aardvarkhill.com |
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Chris Gordon has written 2 works
for choir. The first is a setting (SATB) of Thomas Hardy's short
poem 'The Fallow Deer'. The second is a setting of Ted Hughes's poem
'October Dawn' for SSAATB. Both are a cappella. Chris works as a
composer, writer on music and music publisher. He owns Cool Wind
Music - which is distributed by
www.freehandmusic.com - the
largest online digital sheet music seller in the world. He also has
orchestrated 2 rare songs by Alban Berg which have been published by
Universal Edition, Vienna. Further details and copies of the scores
to both works from:
cgordoncwm@gmail.com |
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is a composer from Scotland, currently studying for a PhD at Glasgow
University (specialising in writing music for voices). Recent
successes include several performances by Glasgow University Chapel
Choir, including a commission for Christmas 2007 "Rorate Coeli De
Super", funded by the Britten-Pears Trust, and upcoming performances
by Scottish Voices and Tongue Stuff (London) of "La Belle Dame Sans
Merci". His compositions have won the John McLeod Award 2001 and the
Temple Church Composition Prize 2002, and he has received funding
from the St Magnus Festival Trust and from the Ralph Vaughan
Williams Trust. For further details, sample compositions and/or a
sample CD of Chris' work, please email him at
hutchingsmusic@hotmail.com or visit
www.hutchingsmusic.co.uk |
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Chris Long
has recently been working with the City of Birmingham Choir as
composer in residence, under a year long project run by the
Performing Rights Society , Making Music and spnm. The result of
this scheme is a 10 -15 minute work for choir and orchestra
(O Lord,
Remember)
which was recently performed at Symphony Hall by the City of
Birmingham Choir and the CBSO and
recieved
a British Composer Award in November 2006. The
work takes excerpts from the requiem mass and places them alongside
an anonymous prayer found at Ravensbruck concentration camp. The
piece is a universal prayer of forgiveness and remembrance. Another
piece
'Amor
Dei' for SATB and organ, written for Choir and Organ, was performed
at Saint Mary's Church in Warwick about 12 months ago.
For more
details and an extract visit
www.chrislong.org.uk or email
chris_a_long@hotmail.com
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Chris Tradgett has been an amateur
musician for longer than he cares to remember; now chiefly singing
in St George's church choir in Cullercoats, Tyne & Wear UK. He has
been composing for a few years now with a small selection of pieces
for a range of musical abilities. He has a variety of compositions
for instrumental ensembles and choral groups. Pieces can also be
supplied edited for specific requirements - just contact him to
discuss. Email
chris.tradgett@blueyonder.co.uk or visit
www.music-room.freewebspace.com |
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Christopher
Maxim (b.1971) composes in a variety of genres, including
sacred choral music, secular choral music, instrumental music and
songs. Some of his sacred choral pieces are published by the Royal
School of Church Music (www.rscm.com),
while other works are published by Stainer & Bell (www.stainer.co.uk),
including his popular organ piece, 'Toccata Nuptiale'. Other
compositions may be heard, seen and purchased on the Sibelius
Website (http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/chrismaxim1).
Many of Chris's pieces have received several public performances,
often in prestigious venues such as cathedrals. His motet 'Felix
namque' was performed in August 2006 by the Latvian Radio Choir at
the Vale of Glamorgan Festival. Chris welcomes commissions for
choral pieces and other music. To find out more, please visit his
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Daniel Bath, a graduate in music
from Clare College, Cambridge, composer of much vocal music and
choral director for Calderdale Schools' Music Service has composed a
new cantata for children's choir. It is a colourfully dramatic
setting of Tennyson's poem "The Lady of
Shalott" - about 23 minutes' duration and scored for upper
voices in 1, 2 or 3 parts with soprano soloist with harpsichord and
guitar accompaniment. It was premiered in July 2003 and is eager to
be performed again. The composer is more than happy to make
arrangements for other forces on demand. Contact:
danielbath@talk21.com
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David F Golightly has composed a
number of pieces for professional vocal ensembles. Rites of Passage
is six settings of Puskin poems in English while the Frontiers
arrangements are American folk songs for choir and piano.
Commissioned by The Soglasie Choir of St Petersburg to write a mass
for St Petersburg the work was premiered in 1994 and received a ten
minute standing ovation. David's music is published by Modrana Music
Publishers Ltd who have a active policy of helping choirs and
ensembles perform Modrana publications. David recently composed an
SATB setting of The Lord's Prayer. See web site
www.modranamusicpromotions.com |
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David Meacock has produced
a variety of arrangements of both sacred and secular choral music, as
well as original compositions and reduced orchestrations of Verdi Requiem, Elgar The Dream of
Gerontius and Parry I was Glad. See the Compositions and
Arrangements page of
www.davidmeacock.com for more details.
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David Perkins is a composer of
choral and theatre music. To date he has written four choral works:
Mass, Elegy, Song of Psalms and Re:Creation.
See
http://www.dp-music.co.uk/choral.html.
Re:Creation, his longest and most ambitious work to date,
received its premiere in Guildford in June 2007. It is now hoped
that other choirs will perform this work in the build up to its
London premiere at St John's Smith Square in 2009. He has had
several children's musicals published including Shake, Ripple &
Roll, Skool & Crossbones, Arabian Nights, The
Selfish Giant and The Happy Prince. These and other shows
are regularly performed by schools and youth theatre companies in
the UK and throughout the world. More information can be found at
http://www.dp-music.co.uk/musicals.html |
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Deborah Mason is seeking a London
based British Choir to premiere her new Oratorio "The Rape of the
Lock" based on Alexander Pope's poetic masterpiece. The work is
scored for 4 - 5 soloists, SATB chorus and chamber orchestra and
lasts about 2 hours 20 minutes. It takes its influences from Purcell
and other Baroque composers and, like Dido and Aeneas, it can also
be staged with 3 principle roles, 6 secondary roles, chorus, dancers
and a dog!. The work has received a favourable review as a 'work in
progress' at a partial premiere in New York. Sample scores and midi
recordings are available. If interested please email
Debmason1@aol.com
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Elizabeth
Sidebotham has, for the past 20 years, had close
associations with Cornish choirs. Based near Liskeard in Cornwall
she has written and arranged music for TTBB, SATB, and SSA choral
groups and choirs. Her TTBB songs have consistently won and been
placed in the Composer's competition held as part of the first
British International Male Voice Choir Festival in Cornwall. In 2003
"The Hedgehog Song" gained first prize, in 2005 "The Glade" gained
second prize, in 2005 "In Search of Whales"was third and in 2009
"Travel in Style" won first prize. She is an accompanist and plays
for 3 male voice choirs, (Trelawny mvc, Tamar Valley mvc and Rame
Peninsula mvc), one ladies choir (vocal group Keltique) and one
mixed choir (Tamar Concert Choir) as well as being MD of another
mixed Cornish choir (the Kessenyan Singers). More information
available from the website
http://www.skypicture.co.uk/ |
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Elizabeth Winters’ choral music
has been performed by groups such as the BBC Singers, the Choir of
Canterbury Cathedral, the Chapel Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge
and Aurora Nova. Details of all her music can be found at
www.elizabethwinters.com |
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Francis Pott
[b.1957] has
acquired a national and international reputation as a composer over
the past twenty-five years. His dramatic and emotionally challenging
music unites a distinctive personal voice with a highly disciplined
but versatile technique rooted in a keen awareness of the past. To
date his works (including a steady flow of major commissions) have
been heard across the U.K. and also at prestigious venues in Eire,
France, Belgium, Italy, Madeira, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Austria,
Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Russia, Canada, the U.S.A. and
Australia. They have been broadcast in the U.K., the U.S.A., Canada
and the Czech Republic, are published by four major houses in the
U.K. and enjoy increasingly prominent representation on CD,
including a particularly fruitful relationship in recent years with
the innovative British company, Signum Records.
http://www.francispott.com/
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Frank L. Appleyard (b. 1941),
a composer. arranger and lyricist, now retired from civil
engineering, Born, bred and living near Huddersfield, West
Yorkshire. He has recently retired from the Huddersfield Choral
Society after singing as a Second Bass for 26 years but continues in
the same section with the Skelmanthorpe Male Voice Choir where he
has clocked 47 years service. Has many compositions to his credit,
many performed by the male voice choir but has also had works
performed at the Yorkshire Composers' Festivals in Leeds. Visit his
website at
www.frankappleyard.co.uk |
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| Gabriel Jackson
has composed a number of substantial works for choirs,
notably Cecilia Virgo and A Vision of Aeroplanes both premiered by the
BBC Singers. For further information visit
www.bmic.co.uk/alias/gabrieljackson
or
www.oup.co.uk/music/repprom/jackson |
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Geoffrey Dale
is a Portsmouth based composer and is currently writing 3
Shakespeare Sonnets for SATB. Already composed are 3 Dylan Thomas
setting for SSAATTBB, as well as a Nunc Dimittus for Choir and Organ.
Two new pieces have recently been published by Canasg Music - on the
web. These are 'Hark how all the Welkin Rings' (Christmas Carol) for
SATB and Keybaord Accpt; and 'She moved through the fair' (SATB
arrangement for small choir of old Irish song). The music can be
purchased through
www.canasg.com/canasgnew3.htm. More details of Geoff's work can be found
here...
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Greg Bartholomew's music has been
performed across the United States and in Canada, Europe and
Australia. His choral works have been performed by such ensembles as
Seattle Pro Musica, The Esoterics, the Oregon Repertory Singers,
Octarium, Austin Vocal Arts Ensemble, and the Oratorio Society of
Minnesota. The Ars Brunensis Chorus recording of his choral settings
From the Odes of Solomon is available on CD by Capstone
Records. Connecticut Choral Arts (Concora) released The 21st
Century (A Girl Born in Afghanistan) on their 2007 CD "Songs and
Stories of Liberation." Bartholomew has sung since 1991 with Seattle
Pro Musica, an award-winning critically-acclaimed choral ensemble.
To listen to performances of his works, visit
www.gregbartholomew.com
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Gwyn Arch
as well as his work as a Musical
Director of South Chiltern Choral Society, Gwyn Arch is also a very
successful arranger of choral music, with nearly a hundred of his
arrangements being published by Faber Music in the last ten years -
music for youth choirs and upper voice groups, and including 17 of the
40 arrangements in the highly-successful Faber Carol Book. He also
contributes significantly to the catalogue of a leading German
publisher as well as publishing his own catalogue of arrangements for
Male voice choirs (Grove Music). ...email |
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Hilary Campbell
is an award-winning composer specialising in choral music. Having
read music at the University of York, she subsequently continued
postgraduate studies there, gaining a distinction for her MA in
2005. Last August, she became Composer in Residence for the Ebor
Singers ( www.eborsingers.org
), having won their inaugural Competition for Young Composers. She
was also the winner of the Shipley Arts Festival Composer Award
2009, the Philip Bates Prize for Young Composers in 2004, and in
2006 was a finalist in the National Youth Choir Composition
Competition. Recent commissions include a Christmas work for a
church choir in Holland, and for Sonitus, the intercollegiate
chamber choir. Hilary is also the founder, director and 1st
soprano of vocal octet The Blossom Street Singers (www.blossomstreetsingers.com),
a group which performs regularly all over the country for a variety
of concerts and functions, is a choral scholar at St Sepulchre
Without Newgate and began the mentor scheme with The Sixteen last
September. Additionally, she directs the King William Singers and
Streatham Voices. Contact
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Ian Schofield
has written two sets of Christmas carols: Illuminare
Jerusalem (new, revised edition to be published by Caddy
Publishing 2009; “I cannot recommend highly enough this
excellent suite of six carols”: Organists’ Review), and
Bendicamus Domino. His first major choral work: Fire
From Heaven for baritone
soloist, SATB chorus, brass, organ and percussion,
has received six performances by delighted choirs. His Te
Deum for SATB chorus, children's choir and orchestra, has
been performed by Portsmouth Choral Union (who commissioned it)
and Basingstoke Choral Society. Sing Alleluia for SATB
choir and orchestra had two ‘first’ performances in the
Petersfield Festival 2006. Other works include: Magnificat
& Nunc Dimitis, Messa Martellata, Cantate
Domino, Lauda Sion, as well as a concerto for two
flutes, Variations on a Bach Minuet for six flutes,
children's cantatas, and songs for soprano and bass voices.
Parodies & Paraphrases on l’Homme Armé for Hampshire
Recorder Orchestra (HRO), conducted by Christopher Burgess,
received five performances including one by the National Youth
Recorder Orchestra. and is available on CD by HRO: DRD 098.
Ian is currently a senior tutor and lecturer at South Downs
College. (Publications are by Caddy Publishing
www.CaddyPublishing.co.uk except Parodies &
Paraphrases.)
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James Archer is an accomplished composer having written many pieces of music for choral groups and instrumentalists. He has also composed his first Symphonic Poem and children's musical, 'Travelling Light' based on the life of St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His Eucharist setting is now complete and information about it can be found on this site. His board game - Cantabile - is designed to help in the training of choristers by coming up with fun questions and answers on notation, church history etc, etc.
He has written several
works for church resulting in performances in San Diego, New Jersey
and Adelaide. More details can be obtained from
his web site
www.jarcher.com |
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James Bryce is a Scottish Based
composer whose work covers a wide range of genres. In 2002 SPNM
shortlisted his choral work "Four Odes After Rumi" based on the text
of four odes by the 13th Century Sufi mystic Jalalludin Rumi, scored
for two choirs (SATB) and three trombones. Futher details can be found
on the SPNM
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James Lavino is a composer of sacred and secular choral
music that has been performed throughout Europe and the USA,
recorded by the choir of Westminster Abbey, and broadcast on BBC
Radio 3 and Classic FM. Recent commissions include pieces for the
choir of St Paul's Cathedral, Tewkesbury Abbey, and Exmoor Singers
of London. Additional details can be found on the Boosey & Hawkes [www.boosey.com/lavino]
website, or on the composer's website,
www.jameslavino.com. |
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James W. Morgan is an educator,
percussionist, composer, arranger and musical director from
Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. He studied at the Huddersfield School of
Music (1971-74) the Royal Northern College of Music (74-75) and
Indiana State University (75-76). James has performed and conducted
widely, but is chiefly known for his choral workshops and his work
with the Holme Valley Singers, the Holme Valley Orchestra and the
Mastersingers, whom he now directs. His compositions and
arrangements are well known and he has conducted several with the
Mastersingers on the BBC’s Daily Service. His works can be found in
his web-site –
www.morganmusic.co.uk |
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James Patten, former Professor of
Composition at Trinity College of Music (1965-1970). His choral music
includes a Stabat Mater for SATB and string orchestra, Mass for St
John for soloists, SATB and Orchestra, plus smaller works (motets,
spirituals and Lent Carols. More information is available from
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Jana Rowland,
graduated with a master's degree in Electroacoustic
composition in 2001 from UEA Norwich, writing a final
one hour choral and electro-acoustic piece called
'The Logic and The
Miracle', performed at Norwich Cathedral in 2000.
Works soon followed with three choral songs performed at Snape
Maltings with English Sinfonietta, A Requiem for choirs,
hymns and sacred works including Psalms, and the
Eucharist. A 'Magnificat' set for Wenhaston Girls Choir
and performed at St Paul's Cathedral is arranged with
'Oranges and lemons', and the bells of London. Settings
of poems include AA Milne (The Wrong House) and Spike
Milligan ditties. Recent choral commissions include 'The
Dream of Sarkis' a setting of a tale by Kahlil Gibran,
and SingOut 2010. Rowland teaches composition for
Eastfeast and Creative Partnerships in Schools. She is
an M.A. (Dist) in Eductaion with research entitled
"Music is my First Language"
email:
janamusic@btinternet.com
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Jean
Hasse was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 1958, and
graduated from Oberlin College Conservatory, Ohio,
specialising in piano, conducting and instrumental music
education; she then did graduate work and teaching at
Cleveland State University. She moved to London in December
1994 and works as a composer, pianist and publisher. Choral
compositions include 'Four Songs from the Japanese' for
unaccompanied chorus, 'The French Lesson' for treble choir
and piano and 'What do I want for Christmas' for treble
choir and piano (or harp). The last two pieces were
performed by the Bromley Boy Singers. For more detail visit.
www.visible-music.com |
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Jeffery Wilson
studied
at the RCM from 1976 with John Lambert and Herbert Howells
and latterly with Aladar Majorossy, Gordon Jacob and Olivier
Messiaen. Jeffery's vocal output is quite diverse as are his
many instrumental works. The composer advises a visit to the
website where sound clips and more information abounds. For
more details visit
www.jefferywilson.co.uk |
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Jenny Lisk is a composer, just
finishing a MMus in composition at the Guildhall School of Music.
Jenny has composed carols, song collections and choral/theatre music
as well as non vocal chamber music, and has had her work performed by
Bath Spa University College, Bristol Chamber Choir and the Takacs
String Quartet.. More details can be obtained be emailing
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Jenny
Nicholson has made her home in Pembrokeshire West Wales,
from where she writes music for voices and choir. For many years
Jenny was a professional singer and has taken her love of singing
and the voice into her choral writing. She says, "voices are a
reflection of the heart, and are capable of an infinite and
beautiful variety of expression - it is my part as a composer to
construct works that allow voices to fully express their greatest
potential." Her works are currently being performed by choirs in
Wales and she has recently had a performance of one of her SSA
works at St. David's Cathedral. She is happy to undertake
commissions for works and is open to discussing requirements - you
can contact her via her website on.
www.jennynicholsonmusic.com
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Jil Bartley is a composer living and
working in France. Jil completed Requiem, a choral/orchestral work
with two soloists using the original latin mass text (about 28 mins in
performance). Requiem received a successful premiere in Nice, followed
by performances in Monaco Cathedral, Vence Cathedral and at the Summer
International Festival, Krakow, Poland. There have been two broadcasts
of Requiem in Australia ( 2006) and several broadcasts in Germany (
2007/2008 ) plus a British Premiere of the work by Arun Choral
Society in Arundel Cathedral, Sussex in 2006. CD available plus list of other works. email.
jil.bartley@sfr.fr website
www.jil-bartley.com
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John Davison
made an SATB arrangement of
the Somerset folk song O Waly Waly, originally as a gift for
an American choir who were visiting Southwark Cathedral one day when
he wandered in there, but now he can't track them down. If
there is a British choir who like English pastoral stuff he would be happy
to send them a copy. For details
please email John Davison
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John Marlow Rhys, winner of the
2000 International Composers Prize in Budapest, Hungary, has written a
4/5 minutes piece called "Resonemus Laudibus" for SATB and organ. The
piece is somewhat 'minimalist' and benefits from a resonant ambience.
Details of this and other choral works are available from
the composer's
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John Pitts - Winner of the
Philharmonia Orchestra Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Composition
Award 2003 and SPNM shortlisted
composer from Bristol, with various anthems and other Christian music
are available online to see, hear and buy from
http://pitts.listen.to or contact
johnpitts@blueyonder.co.uk
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Kim Kirkman
has composed pop songs for choirs, children's music for choirs and
Church Music, including a Salve Regina. For more information email
kimkirkman73@hotmail.com |
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Laurence Hughes is a composer who
has written a lot of choral music - some of which has been performed
by the BBC Singers, The New London Childrens' Choir, The New London
Collegium, Highgate Choral Society, The Arcadian Singers of Oxford
University and others, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio and TV.
Works range from songs for children, through church music, to larger
pieces like his Requiem and 'On The Morning of Christ's Nativity' for
choir and orchestra. You can view, play through and download his music
at
http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/lah/ |
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Luca Tieppo I am
an Italian professional composer and in Italy I have won several
prestigious competitions, such as the Milano Milhaud in 1994 thanks
to which I became the youngest composer in residence at "Pomeriggi
Musicali" in Milan, with Marco Tutino as musical director and in
cooperation with Sonzogno music publisher. Many of my works have
been performed successfully in Italy and abroad. For example,
recently my "Preludes sur la Danse" (a collection for piano solo)
have been premiered in Connecticut by Scott Mayfield and have
received the appreciation of several international pianists. Also my
"Bergen Elegy" (Elegy n°1 for string orchestra), after having won
the first prize at the International Composing Competition "Ottorino
Respighi" in 2007 (in commission Arvo Paert), has successfully been
performed in Italy by many orchestras. Here in London I am
completing the orchestration of a sacred work, for choir, four
soloists and symphony orchestra with electric guitar, electric bass,
drums and percussions. It is entitled "Resurrection Mass" and is a
Mass for the Easter time, which follows Vatican II and in English,
as the language of the new generation in the world. Now I am looking
for opportunities this work to be performed. Email
Luca Tieppo |
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Mark Browse
is a choral composer whose works have been performed in the UK,
Europe and the USA. Lyrical in style and firmly rooted in the great
English tradition of choral music, his compositions range from
simple short songs and anthems to opera and oratorio. For more
details visit
markbrowse.net |
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Martin Read's music has been
performed by numerous choirs - incl Bath Bach Choir, Bath Camerata,
The Holst Singers & Winchester Cathedral Choir. Much of his Christmas
music, including a setting of Wendy Cope's The Christmas Life,
is published by Banks. More
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Michael Short
studied
music at Morley College and London University and in 1966 won a
Mendelssohn Scholarship to study composition in Italy with Goffredo
Petrassi and in London with Sir Lennox Berkeley.
He recently completed a Celebration Ode
for chorus
and orchestra, commissioned and first performed by the Hastings
Philharmonic Choir conducted by Shirley Carey.
A couple of recent works have
been published by Roberton (now distributed by Goodmusic) They
are Three Shakespeare Songs, and A Wedding Song, both for
unaccompanied SATB. He is
also working on
a large-scale cantata based on the life and work of Galileo Galilei,
scored for narrator, chorus, small ('motet') choir, string quartet,
and orchestra. Anyone interested in
putting on a performance of this work, which requires a large and
competent choir, such as could easily cope with Walton's
Belshazzar's Feast or Holst's First Choral
Symphony. Please contact him at
mshort@dassells.free-online.co.uk.
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Michael Maxwell
Steer was a Canterbury chorister whose
career lay in composing, writing & producing for broadcast tv &
radio. As well as conducting the world premiere of Nicholas Nickleby
while London Director of Music for the RSC, his electronic work
Elegy was premiered by the SPNM, and he was Head of 20thC Studies at
the Junior Royal College of Music. Maxwell’s play A Tormented God
was commissioned by the Royal National Theatre. In 1991 he turned
his back on the mainstream world to develop his creative commitment
to green and holistic values. These pieces reflect the integration
of Maxwell’s mature musical language with his alternative spiritual
values. For further information visit
http://msteer.co.uk |
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Nicholas Wilton. Extracts of my
sacred choral music (mostly a cappells for SATB and a couple of
pieces for SSAA) can be listened to at my web site
www.catholicmusic.co.uk . There is a page of a few of the
reviews I have had and one can also look at sheet music samples on
the Music Samples page and download these. Sheet music for all
pieces including more recent ones which are not on the CD (sung by
Magnificat, directed by Philip Cave) is produced to a high quality
and can be bought directly from me. My email address is
sales@catholicmusic.co.uk
Organists' Review described some of my pieces as "...miniature
masterpieces...a result of pure inspiration...I want every
choir...to perform these wonderful pieces. Quite simply they are the
finest music of their type I have seen in a long time." (Michael
Edwards). Recently Cantiones Sacrae of Dundee performed for the
first time in Scotland my Missa Brevis - as well as Locus iste - a
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Owain Park is a British born
composer, conductor, singer and organist. Owain was a chorister at
St Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol, and there developed his love of
choral music. He has written a number of choral works, from three
male voices to double mixed choir. In 2010, Owain won the NCEM
Composers' Award, with his setting of George Herbert's poem 'Virtue'
(the piece entitled 'Sweet Day'). The same year, he won the Phoenix
Singers of Shrewsbury International Composition Competition with his
setting of Maragret College's poem 'Time Was'. Owain has also
recieved accolades from the HMC, and the BBC, and was awarded a
'Highly Commended' placing in the Proms Young Composers' Competition
in 2010 for his setting of Tennyson's 'Tears, Idle Tears' (which can
be found on
YouTube).
Owain is also a member of many choirs, such as the National Youth
Choir of Great Britain, the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir, the City of
Bristol Choir, Exultate Singers, the Wellensian Consort, and the
Hogan Ensemble, as well as school chapel and chamber choirs. As well
as singing these choirs, Owain enjoys conducting them, and plans to
pursue a career in conducting and composing music. Owain can be
found online at
http://www.owainpark.co.uk/, and emailed on
info@owainpark.co.uk |
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Patrick
Larley studied at the RNCM and is now a freelance
composer, conductor and keyboard player. His choral works, performed
throughout the UK and in America, have been recorded on CD and
broadcast on Radio 3 and are published by
Chudleigh's Music. To listen
to his music, order copies or discuss possible commissions visit www.patricklarley.com
or email
enquiries@patricklarley.com
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Paul Ayres,
British composer and arranger (and also a choral director himself) has
a large catalogue of works at
www.paulayres.co.uk His choral
music has been widely performed, commissioned, published and
broadcast. Music for all sorts of choral group - amateur,
professional, children's, youth, adult, sacred and secular. Free
perusal scores are sent as Finale or PDF files.
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Paul Freeman
studied at Wolverhampton & Kingston University and has had works
performed all over London and the UK. He composes almost entirely
for the Church. He also gives piano recitals in London. Works
include a large scale Requiem, Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis,
The Preces & Responses and anthems and motets for specifics and
general use as well as works for other genres. For more information
and contact details visit
http://profmusic.tripod.com |
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Paul Magee
is a self taught British composer and publisher of his own work. He
composes primarily for Piano but does have a choral 'Recordare'
available lasting approximately 7 minutes, written for SATB, Chorus
and Orchestra ready for a premiere performance. He can create a
Piano reduction of the score if necessary. He is also working on a
Benedictus for a Chorus of SATB singers and Orchestra. The score for
'Recordare' is available for a limited period from
http://www.free-scores.com/Download-PDF-Sheet-Music-bootheven.htm
- For further details e-mail: Paul Magee at
pemmusic@btinternet.com |
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Peter Owens
Over many years’ experience as a conductor of school
and amateur choral groups, Peter has regularly composed and arranged
music for choir – both with instrumental accompaniment and a
cappella – in response to opportunities and requests for concerts
and church services. As friends and colleagues increasingly ask for
the scores of these pieces to sing with their own groups, a
collection of Peter's choral music is offered here, which may be
listened to, downloaded, copied and performed free of charge. The
music has proved popular with singers, audiences and congregations
in England and abroad and evokes Peter’s own eclectic tastes: as
well as Renaissance, light and folk music, he especially enjoys
conducting sacred Russian repertoire; he has published articles on
the music of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and led the group Intimate
Voices in performances of Stockhausen’s
Stimmung. Though a graduate
in music from London University, Peter is self-taught as a composer;
his work has received encouragement from Alan Bullard, Andrew Carter
and John Rutter at recent gatherings of the Association of British
Choral Directors. for more information and contact details visit
http://www.peterowens.net |
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Peter Willsher,
freelance composer & conductor, had led an active musical life in
England before emigrating to Canada in 1988. In England he had been
the director of music at several schools noted for their choral and
orchestral programs, including sung performances in Westminster
Abbey, and the Goldsmith, Queen Elizabeth and Royal Albert Halls.
As a professional conductor, he
has directed several choirs and orchestras in Ontario and Quebe.
He
is a prolific composer who writes in a variety of styles. For the
students at West Heath School he wrote several cantatas, piano
pieces and a song cycle for piano and string accompaniment.His next
project will be a Missa Brevis for the Cantabile Chorale in
Montreal, it will highlight the plight of underprivileged children.
Visit www.peterwillsher.com
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Phil Baker studied composition with
Edmund Rubbra at GSMD and as a post-graduate student supervised by
Simon Holt at Royal Holloway College, London, for the degree of
M.Phil. His output includes arrangements and Gebrauchsmusik for
children and music for theatre including a chamber opera on Chaucer’s
The Pardoner’s Tale (using original text) and an operatic musical
based on Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’. His work has received
performances through the SPNM, at The Hawth Theatre and Studio in
Crawley, at the Lewes, Brighton and Huddersfield Festivals, in
Chichester Cathedral and the Gardner Arts Centre and elsewhere. Works in progress The Bayeux Tapestry
– an opera in English, French and Latin based on the depictions of The
Bayeux Tapestry; libretto by William Gilbert.
Christmas Carol on a text from the Carmina Gadelica: SATB a
cappella For more information email
lindsay-phil@talk21.com |
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Philip Armstrong has
recently completed an extensive work for 5 vocalists
(lyric soprano, mezzo soprano, contralto, tenore robusto
& basso profundo), mixed choir and large orchestra.
Entitled 'The Rage of Achilles', it is a setting of the
first part of Homer's Iliad. You can listen to a sample
of the piece at www.philiparmstrong.net or
request a copy of the full score at
gt@philiparmstrong.net Philip Armstrong studied
composition at the RAM and his pieces have been
performed internationally and shortlisted by the SPNM.
This is exciting and energetic music!
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Phillip Cooke is A British
composer, born in Cumbrian and currently a Junior Research
Fellow at Oxford University. He studied at Durham,
Manchester and Cardiff Universities and has had works played
by many of the country’s top choirs and ensembles. He has
recently written pieces for the Temple Church Choir, Choir
of Gloucester Cathedral and the Choir of Queen’s College
Oxford. His work has been featured in this year’s London
Festival of Contemporary Church Music, Lake District Summer
Music Festival and he was the featured composer in the
December 2009 edition of Choir & Organ (who
commissioned a new motet). He is writing new works for
several choirs, including a Te Deum for Aurora Nova
to be performed in St Paul’s Cathedral in 2011. He has
written a large body of work, both secular and sacred which
can be viewed and downloaded at
www.phillipcooke.com
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Philip Lawson was a Lay
Clerk at Salisbury Cathedral for 11 years having been a
freelance singer in London. He has for 13 years now been a
baritone with The King's Singers and is also their principal
arranger. His compositions and arrangements are published
mainly by Hal Leonard Corporation, but he has works
published by several other houses. For a complete listing go
to
www.philiplawson.net, or contact Philip
direct via The King's Singers' website
www.kingssingers.com |
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Philip Stopford, Director of Music Belfast Cathedral has a
range of new choral music compositions available on line, with audio
clips and downloadable PDF files.
...more |
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Phillip Neil Martin was
awarded the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Prize 2003. He
has just completed a new piece for
Unaccompanied SATB Chorus called “I See Heaven” commissioned by by
Christopher Glynn and the St. Stephen's Festival of Arts and Faith
2005. "I See Heaven" will receive its first performance by the choir
of St. Stephen’s Festival of Arts and Faith at St. Stephen’s Church,
Gloucester Road on 10th July 2005 and will ten be available to other
choirs. Duration abt.6 minutes. For more
information email or visit
PNM's new Website
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Ray Smith
(b.1947) is a composer and arranger of, mainly,
choral music. From a full Latin text mass for choir and orchestra
lasting over 75 minutes (listen to
Kyrie) to the smaller a cappella works such as
O Nata Lux. Ray also covers the non-sacred area with
arrangements of traditional British songs such as
All Through The Night or from a little further away like
Shenandoah,
with occasional music like
Christmas Lullaby
also available. For full listing of all works available go to
www.members.sibeliusmusic/raysmith
or to contact him on e-mail at
ray@penray.co.uk
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Richard Donnelly is 33 years old.
Between 1996 and 2003 he lectured at University College Chichester,
specialising in composition. His works include an opera, "Think
Bike" (1999), the soundtrack to an award winning dance film, "Double
One" and various solo piano and ensemble pieces. Among his organ
voluntaries and works for unaccompanied choir, several received
their first performance in Chichester Cathedral. His favourite
choral composers are Ligeti, Holst and Gesualdo. He hopes to compose
the first oratorio to be performed in zero gravity. Email:
composerdonnelly@hotmail.com
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Robert Hanson was born in 1948
and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Southampton
University, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1976. He is an experienced
orchestral and choral conductor, concentrating on the latter in
recent years. He has taught at Dartington College of Arts and from
1991 until 2007 he was Director of Music at Morley College, London.
He now works freelance, composing, conducting and teaching. His choral music
ranges from editions of Renaissance, Baroque and Classical music
through arrangements of Romantic songs for to a wide spectrum of
original work. More information email
Robert Hanson
rfhanson@btinternet.com |
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Robert Hugill is a London based
composer who has written a wide range of choral music both sacred
and secular. His sacred music has been performed by a variety of
choirs including St. Woolos Cathedral, Newport, South Wales; the
Oxford Oratory; St. Mary's Catholic Church, Cadogan Street, Chelsea;
St. Peter's Church, Ealing. He has written commissions for Crouch
End Festival Chorus and for the London Concord Singers. The
eight:fifteen vocal ensemble and FifteenB are showcasing Robert's
music at a mini-Festival at St. Peter's Eaton Square in Jan/Feb 2008
to celebrate the release of Robert's new CD 'The Testament of Dr.
Cranmer'.
http://www.divine-art.com/CD/25053info.htm All of Robert's music is available on-line, with samples,
programme notes etc, at
http://www.sphericaleditions.co.uk/ |
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Robin Benton
is a graduate of London University and has written 2 Christmas pieces
for SATB Choir and piano. These are published in the US by Emerson
Music (www.emersonmusic.com).
Visit his website at
www.robinbenton.com
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Rod Mather
is the Choral Director of St. Clement's
on the hill Anglican Church in Stafford, Brisbane, Queensland. He
studied music at Kingham Hill School in Oxfordshire under the
composer Bryan Kelly. During his time at
St.
James the Great
he helped to form the Newport Pagnell Deanery Choirs Festival where
the choirs of the deanery get together for a well rehearsed Choral
Evensong. This has been so popular now that after 10 years it is
still going strong with the addition of a concert for presentation
pieces. Please visit
http://www.rodeby.noteperfect.net to view his compositions and
arrangements.It
is intended that the music on his website can be freely shared
without worry. |
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Roger May is an award winning composer
with a growing catalogue of vocal and choral works that have been
performed across the South of England. His musical style is tonal yet
colourful with rich harmonies, and is well-liked by performers and
audience alike. Roger is also active in instrumental music: his
orchestral works have been performed by the National Symphony Orchestra
and Orchestra of Opera North, he is Composer-in-Residence with the
National Saxophone Choir, and he has orchestrated for major film and TV
productions. For more details please go to
www.rogermay.co.uk |
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Roger Teichmann (b. 1963) is a
composer of choral, orchestral and chamber music. His cantata The
Serpent God for soprano, baritone, chorus, orchestra and organ, was
premiered at a gala concert in Oxford Town Hall in April 2007. Other
choral pieces include O Vos Omnes, And I Saw An Angel and
The Human Form, the last two of which were written for, and
premiered by, the group Oxford Collutorium. His latest
commission is for a setting of Psalm 100 for choir, organ and strings,
to be performed in mid 2009. More details are available from his
website:
www.rogerteichmann.org.uk |
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Ronald Law has been
working with Schools, Churches and Choral Societies for over
30 years. He has recently made his many compositions
available to all on
www.musicbusinessplus.com For further details, list of
works, etc. contact him at Music Business Plus, 47 Huntley
Road, S11 7PA Email -
Ronlawmusic@aol.com Tel. 0114 2668 913
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