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The Night before Christmas
A fun setting of the classic Christmas poem featuring bursts of well-known carols such as, God rest ye merry, gentlemen, O little town of Bethlehem, and We Wish you a Merry Christmas (well-suited to audience participation.) Set for SATB choir, children’s choir, and small orchestra this is a perfect, lively, 20 minute section of any Christmas celebration. 🎄🤶🧑🎄🎅🎄
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St Mark Passion
Commissioned for the St Endellion Music Festival 2019, Good Friday saw the premiere of this dramatic new work. Reviewing for the Church Times, David Steven commented:
It is not always easy to know if clapping a Bach or Tarney Passion is a good thing. But no words here can reproduce either the awed silence — the longest I have ever known at a concert — or the tumultuous cheers and clapping that eventually broke out. All those involved were at an amazing evening, a world première of a work that I hope will travel the world; but the singers and players alike need to know that some very hard graft was involved to produce the effect it had on all of us on Good Friday on the north Cornish coast.
Missa Media Nocte
This is an uplifting and celebratory setting of the Latin Missa brevis for SATB (with divisions) and organ or chamber ensemble. The choir may be accompanied by organ, chamber ensemble, or a selection of ensemble instruments in combination with organ, opening up several compelling performance options. Four French carol melodies are woven into the music, and performance with glockenspiel and trumpet bring these particularly to the fore. The chosen carol melodies are often associated with hymns from other Church seasons, making the work suitable for performance throughout the year.
Missa media nocte was commissioned for the 2017 Midnight Mass at Lancaster Priory. It is a short, celebratory work, incorporating four French carols: 'Noël Nouvelet' (Kyrie); 'Quelle est cette odeur agréable?' (Gloria); 'Quittez, pasteurs' (Sanctus and Benedictus); and 'Il est né le divin enfant' (Agnus Dei). These melodies also belong to English hymns from different parts of the Church year, which means the mass can be used whenever a short festal setting is required; however, the organ accompaniment can be extended by glockenspiel, trumpet, timpani, and percussion to make it particularly suitable for the celebration of Christmas.
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ORA SINGERS
SANCTISSIMA
Released August 2023, this is a fantasy vespers and benediction for the Assumption. It features In Homeward Flight
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Sonoro
CHORAL INPIRATIONS 2
The second disc of pieces inspired by choral classics. This features The Spirit of the Lord. a reflection on the prologue to Elgar's The Apostles
SANSARA
THE WAITING SKY
A very popular and award-winning album of Christmas music featuring The Waiting Sky, The Wise Men and the Star, and Balulalow.
PROJECTS
20 October 2024
St Luke's Chelsea
Hymn for St Luke
Premiere of a piece specially written to celebrate the 200 anniversary of the church's foundation, commissioned by Jeremy Summerly and the choir of St Luke's, Chelsea
1 November 2024
New Forest
Countryside Education Trust
The New Forest Song is a community-led song-cycle commission for a range of voices. The aim of the project is to connect local people, especially children and young people, to the landscape and special properties of the New Forest.
The project also offers the opportunity to bring together groups of young people from across the Forest, create a sense of local identity and share their co-created songs with each other.
Workshops are taking place at the Countryside Education Trust’s Treehouses and also in local primary and secondary schools and with home-educated groups, mainly on the Waterside, with some in New Milton.
There will be a sharing for parents in July 2024 and further opportunities for performance at the Performing Arts Centre at Ballard School in New Milton. An aspiration for 2025 is to take the New Forest Song to the New Forest Show.
The project is being managed by the Countryside Education Trust, an environmental education charity in Beaulieu, with a farm, woodland, orchard and gardens. The Trust has worked with thousands of children on school residential and day visits during its long history and is a well-loved local institution.
27 July 2024
Morland, Cumbria
Morland Choristers' Camp
Morland Choristers’ Camp is an annual residential summer course for young singers aged 9-17. It offers a unique opportunity to experience the excitement of singing in a 100 strong four-part choir and to enjoy a week of outdoor activities in the heart of the Eden Valley. Anyone can apply – all that is needed is a love of singing and lots of energy.
19 July 2024
Ely
Gabrieli ROAR
The course dates for this project are 19th – 24th July 2024. The residential will run in a similar format to our ‘Angels and Devils’ project, where we expanded the range of activity on offer and extended the course by a day. As well as learning and performing Verdi’s Requiem, we will also concentrate on musicianship sessions and vocal masterclasses and learn a few a cappella pieces, in various musical styles, to introduce our young singers to a wider range of choral music.
8 August 2024
Newcastle, Hexham, Carlisle
Northern Cathedrals Course
This choir trip to England is something for you…
as part of the choir trip to England that Koorschool Delft is organising this summer together with English composer and conductor Oliver Tarney. As ‘visiting choir’, you will sing the most beautiful choral music in a number of evensongs in Newcastle, Carlisle and Hexham and a mass in Newcastle.
