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Upcoming Events
23, 24 December 2018
My carol Sing Lullaby will be performed in the Nine Lessons and Carols at Carlisle Cathedral.
23 December 2018
Antiphon will perform Noel: Verbum Caro Factum Est in their Nine Lessons and Carols at St Mungo’s, Simonburn, near Hexham. Starts at 6.30 PM.
Various Dates: December 2018
The three-part version of Sing Lullaby will be included in Canty’s tour of historic venues in Scotland, including world-famous Rosslyn Chapel, the Chapel Royal in Stirling Castle, and Dunfermline Abbey.
See https://cappella-nova.com/news/ for the exciting schedule!
16 December 2018
Welcome Sir Christèmas! A concert of Seasonal Music and Readings, featuring Mathias’s Ave Rex and Schütz’s German Magnificat performed by Pro Nobis Singers, dir. Clive Walkley. This will feature the premiere performance of my carol Gloria tibi Domine. St Mark’s Church, Natland, Kendal. Starts at 7.30 PM.
10 December 2018
The choir of Leeds Cathedral will perform There is no Rose at their concert in Leeds Town Hall. 1 PM start.
9 December 2018
The choir of Leeds Cathedral (RC), directed by Benjamin Saunders, will perform my new carol, especially composed for them, There is no Rose, at the Cathedral Carol Concert. 4 PM start.
1 December 2018
Past Events
10 October 2018
The exciting young Canadian Flute ensemble Trio Taco performed my Fugue in Sepia on the following dates in their Autumn 2018 tour of Ontario:
10 June 2018
Trio Taco gave the first performance of Fugue in Sepia in Victoria, British Columbia.
5 June 2018
Jack Stone, Organ Scholar of Carlisle Cathedral, performed The Blackbirds: Fantasy in C major as part of his lunchtime recital at Carlisle Cathedral.
23 April, 29 April, 30 April, 6 May
I was interviewed on BBC Radio Cumbria Your Classical at 6 PM talking to John Lipscombe about my music. The programmes featured excerpts from Of a Rose, Piano Sonata in G and Clavier Suite in A.
14 April 2018
Kendal Concert Band performed arrangements of my Ouverture pour les Pâques (Easter Overture) and Sarabande (from my Clavier Suite in A major) in their Spring concert:
7 April 2018
I conducted a concert in Lanercost that included my Parce Domine, alongside other works connected with Lent, Passiontide and Easter, including a specially composed setting of Haec Dies by my friend and colleague Jonathan Millican.
1 April 2018 Easter Sunday
My motet O taste and see how gracious the Lord is was sung at St Modwen’s Church in Burton-upon-Trent.
30 March 2018 Good Friday
The Herdwyck Consort featured my Parce Domine as part of their service of music and readings at St Patrick’s Church, Patterdale (6 PM). Click here for details.
21 March 2018
Tony Westerman performed my chorale prelude O Welt, ich muss dich lassen in his lunchtime recital at St Modwen’s Church, Burton-upon-Trent. (Starts 12.30 PM.)
25 December 2017
My chorale prelude Vom Himmel Hoch featured in the pre-Eucharist music at Carlisle Cathedral.
Noel: Verbum Caro Factum Est was sung as the Offertory at Christmas Day Mass at Leeds Cathedral.
15 December 2017
The Gabrieli Choir gave the world premiere of my carol Noel: Verbum Caro Factus Est at the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at St Columba’s Scottish Presbyterian Church in Budapest.
A couple of hours later, Carlisle Cathedral Choir began their Gala Concert with the same carol.
10 December 2017
St Mark’s Church, Natland, Kendal at 7.30 PM. Pro Nobis performed my carol Hard is the Road to Bethlehem at their Christmas concert (“Wolcum Yule!”), alongside Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols and other seasonal works. You can hear their performance here.
9 December 2017
“Hallelujah! A Christmas Concert”. St James’s Church, Denton Holme, Carlisle. The Abbey Singers gave the premiere of my new Grand Motet Rite majorem Iacobus canamus. The programme also featured Part One of Handel’s Messiah and other exciting and joyous pieces, including Jonathan Millican’s Ave Maria.
30 July 2017
My music was featured in a special weekend of services at Carlisle Cathedral featuring music by Cumbrian-based composers.
7 February 2017
Lunchtime lecture-recital at Tullie House, Carlisle. I celebrated contributions to music made by non-binary and transgendered people, especially the castrati, and together with Jack Stone performed a short programme of vocal solos, including selections from Schütz, Monteverdi and Carissimi.
2 December 2016
Lunchtime recital with Jordan English at St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
The programme was as follows:
Purcell: Music for a While
Schütz: O Jesu, nomen dulce
Christopher Gibbons: Voluntary for Double Organs (organ solo played by Jordan English)
Orlando Gibbons: The Secret Sins
Henry Lawes: To God the Holy Ghost
Pelham Humfrey: A Hymn to God the Father
Franz Tunder: Praeludium in G minor (organ solo played by Jordan English)
Schütz: Was hast du verwirket?
Purcell: Vouchsafe, O Lord (from the Te Deum in D major)
Heinrich Albert: Hie habt ihr, ihr jungfrauen
1st October 2016
Mini-recital and panellist at Celebrate! Symposium, Tullie House, Carlisle.
20 March 2016 Palm Sunday
Alto soloist in Haydn: Stabat Mater – Carlisle Cathedral Chamber Choir, Carlisle Cathedral.
13 February 2016
Occasional Musick at Austin Friars School Chapel, Carlisle – starts 7.30 PM. This included the Byrd 4-part Mass.
19 December 2015
“Smith & Jones: A Baroque Christmas” – recital at St Bride’s (Greyfriars), Dumfries. Music by Schütz and Bach.
12 December 2015
Carlisle Cathedral Christmas Concert – starts 7.30 PM. I performed the alto solo “O Thou that tellest” from Handel’s Messiah.
21 November 2015
Concert in aid of Amnesty International at St John’s Houghton with new group directed by me, “Occasional Musick”. Music by Schütz, Fux and Praetorius.
8 October 2015
Lunchtime recital at Hexham Abbey, with Max Smith (organ scholar, Carlisle Cathedral)
17th-century music from England and Germany
Orlando Gibbons – Fancy in A re
Henry Purcell – Music for a While
Pelham Humfrey – A Hymn to God the Father
Henry Lawes – To God the Holy Ghost
J.J. Froberger Toccata VI: Da sonarsi alla levatione
Heinrich Schütz – Kläglicher Abschied
Heinrich Schütz – Was hast du verwirket?
Heinrich Albert – Hie habt ihr, ihr jungfrauen
Henry Purcell – Vouchsafe O Lord (from Te Deum in D)
6 October 2015
Lunchtime concert at Carlisle Cathedral (as member of the Herdwyck Consort)